βαίεσσα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

  • βλίσσα (blíssa) — possible correction

Etymology

Possibly from a Proto-Albanian *waiša whence Albanian vesh (“vine”).[1]

Noun

βαίεσσα • (baíessa) f

  1. (hapax legomenon) bunch of grapes
    Synonym: βότρυς (bótrus)

References

  1. ^ Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak (2016) “The earliest Albanian loanwords in Greek”, in lnternational Conference on Language Contact in the Balkans and Asia Minor‎[1], page 41

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