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Ἶρις

Ἶρις

Ancient Greek

Proper noun

Ἶρις • ‎(Îris) f ‎(genitive Ἴριδος); third declension

  1. Iris

Inflection

Descendants

  • Greek: Ίρις ‎(Íris); Ίριδα ‎(Írida)
  • Latin: Iris

References

  • Ἶρις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Ἶρις in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,014

Etymology

Presuming an earlier form *ϝῖρις ‎(*wîris), then from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁i-ro- ‎(“a twist, thread, cord, wire”), from *weh₁i- ‎(“to turn, twist, weave, plait”). Cognates include Low German Wir ‎(“wire”), German Wiere ‎(“wire, metallic thread”), Icelandic vír ‎(“wire”), Swedish vira ‎(“to twist”), Latin vieō ‎(“weave together”), Welsh gŵyr ‎(“bent”).

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