τυτώ
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Onomatopoeic, rendering the cry of the owl. See also Latin tutubō (“to cry (of an owl)”) and Lithuanian tutúoti (“first flute, pipe”). Similarly in Greek τοῦτις (toûtis, “blackbird”) and ταύτασος (taútasos, “kind of bird”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tyˈto/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /tyˈto/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /tyˈto/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /tiˈto/
Noun
[edit]τυτώ • (tutṓ) f (genitive τυτοῦς); third declension
Inflection
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “τυτώ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τυτώ 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