ῥίμφα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Hellenic *wrenkʷʰa, from Proto-Indo-European *wrengʷʰ-, whence Proto-Germanic *wringaną (“to squeeze, wring”) and Lithuanian rangus (“flexible”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ím.pʰa/ → /ˈrim.ɸa/ → /ˈrim.fa/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ím.pʰa/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈrim.pʰa/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈrim.ɸa/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈrim.fa/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈrim.fa/

Adverb

ῥίμφᾰ • (rhímpha)

1. fast, quickly

References

• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ῥίμφα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1286

Further reading

• “ῥίμφα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ῥίμφα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ῥίμφα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press