Ancient Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from
Late Egyptian (zꜣy,
“Sais”), from earlier
(zꜣw), probably ultimately from the verb
(zꜣw,
“to guard, to protect”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sá.is/ → /ˈsa.is/ → /ˈsa.is/
Proper noun
Σάϊς • (Sáïs) f (genitive Σάεως); third declension
- Sais, Egypt
Inflection
Third declension of
ἡ Σάϊς;
τῆς Σάεως (
Attic)
ἡ Σάϊς hē Sáïs
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τῆς Σάεως tês Sáeōs
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τῇ Σάει tēî Sáei
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τὴν Σάϊν tḕn Sáïn
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Σάϊ Sáï
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- This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
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Derived terms
- Σαΐτης (Saḯtēs)
- Σαϊτικός (Saïtikós)
Descendants
- Greek: Σάις (Sáis)
- → Latin: Saïs
Further reading
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,024
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 420.1
- Vycichl, Werner (1983) Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte, Leuven: Peeters, →ISBN, page 182