κυσήγη
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly from a Proto-Albanian *kušēgā, whence Albanian shegë (“pomegranate”).[1]
Noun
[edit]κυσήγη • (kusḗgē) f
- (hapax) pomegranate
- Synonym: ῥόα (rhóa)
- 5th c. C.E., Hesychius of Alexandria, Γλώσσαι, Κ.4730:
- κυσήγη· ῥοιά
- kusḗgē; rhoiá
- kusḗgē: pomegranate
References
[edit]- ^ Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak (2016) “The earliest Albanian loanwords in Greek”, in lnternational Conference on Language Contact in the Balkans and Asia Minor[1], page 41
Further reading
[edit]- “κυσήγη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press