σμύρις
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- σμίρις (smíris)
Etymology
A Semitic borrowing, whence also comes Egyptian jsmr (“emery”), later smr (“emery”).[1] Cognate to Hebrew שָׁמִיר (šāmī́r, “emery, corund”), Aramaic שָׁמִירָא (šāmīrā) / ܫܡܝܪܐ (šāmīrā), Arabic سَامُور (sāmūr, “corundum”), possibly stemming from or at least related to Akkadian 𒉌𒌓𒌑 (NA₄U2 /šammu/, “emery, corund, stone used to cut hard precious gems, entitled the king of the stones for its mastery over all other stones”, literally “herb-stone, stone-medicine”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /zmý.ris/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈzmy.ris/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈzmy.ris/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈzmy.ris/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈzmi.ris/
Declension
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ σμῠ́ρῐς hē smúris |
τὼ σμῠ́ρῐδε tṑ smúride |
αἱ σμῠ́ρῐδες hai smúrides | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς σμῠ́ρῐδος tês smúridos |
τοῖν σμῠρῐ́δοιν toîn smurídoin |
τῶν σμῠρῐ́δων tôn smurídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ σμῠ́ρῐδῐ têi smúridi |
τοῖν σμῠρῐ́δοιν toîn smurídoin |
ταῖς σμῠ́ρῐσῐ / σμῠ́ρῐσῐν taîs smúrisi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν σμῠ́ρῐδᾰ tḕn smúrida |
τὼ σμῠ́ρῐδε tṑ smúride |
τᾱ̀ς σμῠ́ρῐδᾰς tā̀s smúridas | ||||||||||
Vocative | σμῠ́ρῐς smúris |
σμῠ́ρῐδε smúride |
σμῠ́ρῐδες smúrides | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- σμιριεῖα (smirieîa)
- σμιρίτης (smirítēs)
Descendants
- → Latin: smyris
- → Classical Syriac: ܣܡܝܪܝܣ (*smiris)
References
- “σμύρις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σμύρις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- But the meaning “emery” has been contested on archaeological grounds by Harris, John Raymond (1961) Lexicographical Studies in Ancient Egyptian Minerals (Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Institut für Orientforschung; 54) (in German), Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, page 16
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