ὄρυζα

See also: όρυζα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ὄρυζον (óruzon)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Iranian *wrinǰišder.

Ancient Greek ὄρυζα (óruza)

A borrowing from an Eastern Iranian language, from Proto-Iranian *wrinǰiš or *wriHǰíš; compare Pashto وريژې pl (wriže). See the Iranian forms listed at Old Persian *vrinjiš, especially those without the nasal infix, for more on the etymon.^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ó.ryz.da/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ry.za/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ry.za/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ry.za/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ri.za/

Noun

ὄρυζᾰ • (óruză) f (genitive ὀρύζης); first declension

rice (Oryza sativa)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ὄρυζᾰ; τῆς ὀρύζης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὄρυζᾰ hē óruză	τὼ ὀρύζᾱ tṑ orúzā	αἱ ὄρυζαι hai óruzai
Genitive	τῆς ὀρύζης tês orúzēs	τοῖν ὀρύζαιν toîn orúzain	τῶν ὀρυζῶν tôn oruzôn
Dative	τῇ ὀρύζῃ tēî orúzēi	τοῖν ὀρύζαιν toîn orúzain	ταῖς ὀρύζαις taîs orúzais
Accusative	τὴν ὄρυζᾰν tḕn óruzăn	τὼ ὀρύζᾱ tṑ orúzā	τᾱ̀ς ὀρύζᾱς tā̀s orúzās
Vocative	ὄρυζᾰ óruză	ὀρύζᾱ orúzā	ὄρυζαι óruzai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ὀρυζοτροφέω (oruzotrophéō)
ὀρύζιον (orúzion)

Related terms

ὀρίνδης (oríndēs)

Descendants

Greek: όρυζα (óryza)
→ Arabic: رُزّ (ruzz), أَرُزّ (ʔaruzz), *رَوْز (*rawz)
- Hijazi Arabic: رُز (ruzz)
- Maltese: ross, rożż (obsolete)
- →? Afar: rúddi (possibly from Amharic)
- → Amharic: ሩዝ (ruz)
- → Middle Armenian: ռուզ (ṙuz)
- → Ottoman Turkish: رز (rüz)
- → Middle Armenian: ըռուզ (əṙuz)
- → Ottoman Turkish: ارز (ürüz, erz)
- Andalusian Arabic: روز (rawz)
  - → Asturian: arroz
  - → Old Galician-Portuguese:
    - Galician: arroz
    - Portuguese: arroz
      - → Kaingang: aronh
      - → Kariri: arrossú
  - → Old Spanish: arroz
    - Spanish: arroz
      - → English: arroz
      - → Navajo: alóós
      - → Ye'kwana: ado
    - Ladino: arroz
- Moroccan Arabic: روز (rūz)
  - → Tarifit: aṛṛuẓ
- South Levantine Arabic: روز (rōz)
→ Aramaic: אורז (ˀwrz /⁠ˀŏroz⁠/), ארוזא (ˀrwzˀ /⁠ˀurŭzā⁠/)
- Classical Syriac: ܐܘܪܘܙܐ (ʾōrūzā)
→ Hebrew: אורז / אֹרֶז ('órez)
→ Latin: orīza, oryza, (Late Latin) risus
- → Bulgarian: ориз (oriz)
- → Macedonian: ориз (oriz)
- → Middle High German: rīs
  - German: Reis
  - → Polish: ryż
    - → Ukrainian: риж (ryž)
  - → Latvian: rīss
- → Middle Low German: rīs
  - → Old Norse: rís
    - Danish: ris
    - Faroese: rís
    - Icelandic: hrís
    - Norwegian Bokmål: ris
    - Norwegian Nynorsk: ris
    - Swedish: ris
  - → Russian: рис (ris)
- → Italian: riso
  - → Old French: ris
    - French: riz
    - → Middle English: rys
      - English: rice
        Tok Pisin: rais
      - → Irish: rís
- → Translingual: Oryza
→ Laz: ორზა (orza)
→ Mingrelian: ორზა (orza), ორჷზა (orəza), ორიზა (oriza)
→ Old Armenian: որիզ (oriz)

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ὄρυζα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1112-3

“ὄρυζα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ὄρυζα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- rice idem, page 712.
Mayrhofer, Manfred (1976) “vrīhíḥ”, in Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary]‎^[2] (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 282
Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “vrīhí-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[3] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 597-8
ὄρυζα, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

[1] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ὄρυζα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1112-3

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