Phrygian
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin Phrygiānus + English -an (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Phrygianus is derived from Phrygia + -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’); and Phrygia is from Ancient Greek Φρῠγῐ́ᾱ (Phrugíā, “region in Anatolia”),[1] from Φρῠ́ξ (Phrúx, “person from Phrygia”) (further etymology unknown, possibly from Phrygian or related to Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to ascend, rise up; to be elevated, up high”)) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɹɪ.d͡ʒɪ.ən/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɹɪ.d͡ʒi.ən/
Audio (General American): (file) - Hyphenation: Phryg‧i‧an
Adjective
[edit]Phrygian (not comparable)
- Of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their culture.
- Written or spoken in the Phrygian language.
- 2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 114:
- ‘Then one day one of the infants stretched out his little hands to the shepherd and exclaimed bekos, which is the Phrygian word for bread.’
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]of or relating to Phrygia, its people or their culture
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written or spoken in the Phrygian language
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Noun
[edit]Phrygian (plural Phrygians)
- A native or inhabitant of Phrygia.
- 2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 114:
- ‘And so Psammetichus decided the Phrygians must have been the first race on earth, and Phrygian the first language.’
- A Montanist.
Translations
[edit]native or inhabitant of Phrygia
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Proper noun
[edit]Phrygian
- The language of the Phrygian people.
- (music) Phrygian mode
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]language
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References
[edit]- ^ “Phrygian, n. and adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2024; “Phrygian, adj. and n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
[edit]Phrygian on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Phrygian language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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