Λίγυς

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Ancient Greek[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

The name is of uncertain origin. Room suggests an Etruscan, Basque, or other language isolate ethnonym, hinted by the -sc- element found in older Latin forms ligusc*; Compare Latin Vascones and Etruscus.

Imberciadori more recently connects it with Proto-Indo-European *(s)leyg- (to smear, make smooth), deriving possessive *(s)lig-wés- / *(s)lig-us- (bright) through an internally derived s-stem *(s)léig-us (brightness), from the semantics of Proto-Indo-European *(s)léyg-u- / *(s)lig-éw- (flat, even; equal).

Pronunciation[edit]

 

Noun[edit]

Λῐ́γῠς (Lígusm (genitive Λῐ́γῠος); third declension

  1. one of the Ligures; a Ligurian
  2. an inhabitant of Liguria; a Ligurian

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Descendants[edit]

  • Greek: Λίγυς (Lígys)

References[edit]

  • Λίγυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Λίγυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,015
  • Room, Adrian (2006): Place Names of the World, 2nd ed., McFarland & Co.,
  • Imberciadori, Giulio: The Bright Ligurians, in: Beiträge zur Namenforschung, Volume 57, Issue 1 (2022), pp. 81 - 97; [2]