βοῦττις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

  • βούτη (boútē), βοῦτις (boûtis)

Etymology

According to Beekes, the word is evidently Pre-Greek, because of the alternation -τ-/-ττ-.[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

βοῦττῐς • (boûttĭs) f (genitive βούττῐος); third declension

  1. vessel in the shape of the frustum of a cone

Declension

Third declension of ἡ βοῦττῐς; τῆς βούττῐος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ βοῦττῐς
hē boûttĭs 		τὼ βούττῐε
tṑ boúttĭe 		αἱ βούττῐες
hai boúttĭes
Genitive τῆς βούττῐος
tês boúttĭos 		τοῖν βουττῐ́οιν
toîn bouttĭ́oin 		τῶν βουττῐ́ων
tôn bouttĭ́ōn
Dative τῇ βούττῑ
tēî boúttī 		τοῖν βουττῐ́οιν
toîn bouttĭ́oin 		ταῖς βούττῐσῐ / βούττῐσῐν
taîs boúttĭsĭ(n)
Accusative τὴν βοῦττῐν
tḕn boûttĭn 		τὼ βούττῐε
tṑ boúttĭe 		τᾱ̀ς βούττῑς / βούττῐᾰς
tā̀s boúttīs / boúttĭăs
Vocative βοῦττῐ
boûttĭ 		βούττῐε
boúttĭe 		βούττῐες
boúttĭes
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

  • → Latin: buttis
  • → Ottoman Turkish: فوچی (fuçı, fıçı), فیچی (fıçı)
    • Turkish: fıçı
    • → Albanian: fuçi
    • → Armenian: ֆըչի (fəčʻi), ֆիչի (fičʻi)
    • → Ubykh: фыҽы (fəĉə)

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βοῦ(τ)τις”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 233

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