δυσ-

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dus-. Cognate to Proto-Germanic *tuz- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”) (English tore). See Persian دشمن (došman) for PIE cognates.

Pronunciation

• (5th BC Attic): IPA: /dys/

• (1st BC Egyptian): IPA: /dys/

• (4th AD Koine): IPA: /ðys/

• (10th AD Byzantine): IPA: /ðys/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan): IPA: /ðis/

Prefix

δυσ- (dus-)

1. bad, hard, unfortunate

References

• LSJ
• BDAG