τύρσις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

τύρρις (túrrhis) (Hesychius)

Etymology

Likely a Mediterranean substrate loan, perhaps from Illyrian.^[1]^[2] Beekes also compares Tursha (a name for the Sea People, see Tiras), Tyrsenians, Tiryns, and marks the ultimate origin as non-Indo-European.

Pronunciation

(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtyr.sis/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈtyr.sis/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈtyr.sis/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈtir.sis/

Noun

τύρσις • (túrsis) f (indeclinable)

tower

Descendants

Latin: turris (see there for further descendants)

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “Τύρσις”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1520-1
^ Frisk, Hjalmar (1970) “τύρσις”, in Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, pages 948-49

“τύρσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“τύρσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“τύρσις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter

[1] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “Τύρσις”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1520-1

[2] Frisk, Hjalmar (1970) “τύρσις”, in Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, pages 948-49

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