πέρυσι

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πέρρυσ (pérrhus) — Aeolic
• πέρυτι (péruti) — Doric

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *peruti (“last year”, literally “on the other side of a year”), from a compound of *per (“through, across”) + *ut(i), locative singular from *wet- (“year”); compare ἔτος (étos, “year”)(< *wetos). Cognate with Sanskrit परुत् (parut, “last year”), Proto-Germanic *ferudi (“last year”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pé.ry.si/ → /ˈpe.ry.si/ → /ˈpe.ri.si/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pé.ry.si/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ry.si/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ry.si/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ry.si/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ri.si/

Adverb

πέρυσι • (pérusi)

1. a year ago, last year

References

• “πέρυσι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πέρυσι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πέρυσι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G4070 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • ago idem, page 19.
  • last idem, page 477.
  • year idem, page 995.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

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Greek

Alternative forms

• πέρσι (pérsi)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πέρυσι (pérusi).

Adverb

πέρυσι • (pérysi)

1. last year (the year before the present one)

Coordinate terms

• φέτος (fétos, “this year”)
• του χρόνου (tou chrónou, “next year”)
• προσεχές έτος (prosechés étos, “next year”)

Related terms

• περσινός (persinós, “last year”, adj)