σίδη

See also: Σίδη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

  • σίβδη (síbdē), ξίμβᾱ (xímbā), ῥίμβᾱ (rhímbā), σίβδᾱ (síbdā), σίδᾱ (sídā), σιδέᾱ (sidéā), σίλβᾱ (sílbā)

Etymology

According to Furnée, all the variations prove a Pre-Greek origin, after Witczak specifically borrowed from Western Anatolian. Also passed as far as Albanian shegë, to which the form κυσήγη (kusḗgē) once mentioned without contextualization is in any case ancestral. Linked to the reconstruction *sida "red", which has also been suggested as the root of σίδηρος (sídēros), "iron."

Pronunciation

 

Noun

σίδη • (sídēf (genitive σῑ́δης); first declension

  1. pomegranate (tree and fruit)
    Synonym: ῥόα (rhóa)
  2. kind of waterplant growing near Orchomenus, water lily

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Cappadocian Greek:
    Sinasos: σίτη (síti)
    Pharasa: σίδι (sídi)
  • Pontic Greek: σίδη (sídi), σίλβᾰ (sílvᾰ)
  • Romance:
    Salentian: sída, síta, sèta
    Tarentian: sèta
    Old Barese: sede, seida
    Barese: sétə, saitə, sèitə

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