Phrygian

English

Etymology

From Latin Phrygiānus + English -an (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Phrygianus is derived from Phrygia + -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’); and Phrygia is from Ancient Greek Φρῠγῐ́ᾱ (Phrŭgĭ́ā, “region in Anatolia”),[1] from Φρῠ́ξ (Phrŭ́x, “person from Phrygia”) (further etymology unknown, possibly from Phrygian or related to Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to ascend, rise up; to be elevated, up high”)) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɹɪ.d͡ʒɪ.ən/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɹɪ.d͡ʒi.ən/
  • Audio (General American):(file)
  • Hyphenation: Phryg‧i‧an

Adjective

Phrygian (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their culture.
  2. Written or spoken in the Phrygian language.
    • 2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 114:
      ‘Then one day one of the infants stretched out his little hands to the shepherd and exclaimed bekos, which is the Phrygian word for bread.’

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Noun

Phrygian (plural Phrygians)

  1. A native or inhabitant of Phrygia.
    • 2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 114:
      ‘And so Psammetichus decided the Phrygians must have been the first race on earth, and Phrygian the first language.’
  2. A Montanist.

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Proper noun

Phrygian

  1. The language of the Phrygian people.
  2. (music) Phrygian mode

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References

  1. ^ “Phrygian, n. and adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2024; “Phrygian, adj. and n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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