φυσάω

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From φῦσα (phûsa, “bellows”) +‎ -άω (-áō); probably ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European imitative root *pu- (“to blow, swell”). Akin to Latin pustula. Or, possibly a word, suggested by the suffix of some derivatives.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰyː.sá.ɔː/ → /ɸyˈsa.o/ → /fiˈsa.o/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰyː.sá.ɔː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰyˈsa.o/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸyˈsa.o/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fyˈsa.o/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /fiˈsa.o/

Verb

φῡσᾰ́ω • (phūsáō)

1. (intransitive) to blow, to puff
2. (transitive) to blow out, to extinguish

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Greek: φυσάω (fysáo), φυσώ (fysó)

Further reading

• “φυσάω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φυσάω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φυσάω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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

Verb

φυσάω • (fysáo) (past φύσηξα)

1. Alternative form of φυσώ (fysó)