-ις

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See also: ἴς

Ancient Greek

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Alternative forms

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  • -ῑς (-īs)
  • -τίς (-tís)extended form

Etymology

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Uncertain, but compare Latin -idus (forming adjectives). Furnée and Beekes also consider it a common Pre-Greek suffix, related to -ιτ- (-it-), -ινδ- (-ind-) and -ινθ- (-inth-).

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Pronunciation

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Suffix

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-ῐς (-isf (genitive -ῐδος); third declension

  1. Forms feminine nouns, or feminine forms of adjectives (often accented on the ultima)
    Ἕλλην (Héllēn, Greek man) + ‎-ις (-is) → ‎Ἑλληνίς (Hellēnís, Greek woman)
    Ἰλλυριός (Illuriós, Illyrian man) + ‎-ις (-is) → ‎Ἰλλυρίς (Illurís, Illyrian woman)

Declension

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Derived terms

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See also

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References

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  • Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920) “Part III: Formation of Words”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 843.b.2
  • Furnée, Edzard Johan (1972) Die wichtigsten konsonantischen Erscheinungen des Vorgriechischen (Janua linguarum. Series practica; 150) (in German), The Hague and Paris: Mouton, page 324
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2014) “70 -ῑδ-”, in Stefan Norbruis, editor, Pre-Greek: Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, § 2.3 The Suffixes, page 36