τίγρις
See also: Τίγρις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From an Indo-Iranian language. Some suppose a relation to Avestan 𐬝𐬌𐬔𐬭𐬌 (t̰igri, “arrow”), Old Persian 𐎫𐎥𐎼 (t-g-r, “pointed, sharp”). According to Watkins, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to point, stick”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tí.ɡris/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈti.ɡris/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈti.ɣris/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈti.ɣris/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈti.ɣris/
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ τῐ́γρῐς hē tígris |
τὼ τῐ́γρει tṑ tígrei |
αἱ τῐ́γρεις hai tígreis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς τῐ́γρεως tês tígreōs |
τοῖν τῐγρέοιν toîn tigréoin |
τῶν τῐ́γρεων tôn tígreōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ τῐ́γρει têi tígrei |
τοῖν τῐγρέοιν toîn tigréoin |
ταῖς τῐ́γρεσῐ / τῐ́γρεσῐν taîs tígresi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν τῐ́γρῐν tḕn tígrin |
τὼ τῐ́γρει tṑ tígrei |
τᾱ̀ς τῐ́γρεις tā̀s tígreis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | τῐ́γρῐ tígri |
τῐ́γρει tígrei |
τῐ́γρεις tígreis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
References
- “tiger”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Further reading
- “τίγρις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τίγρις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τίγρις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 874
Greek
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