Ancient Greek

Proper noun

Τῑ́ρῠνς • ‎(Tī́runs) m ‎(genitive Τῑ́ρῠνθος); third declension

1. Tiryns; Tiryntha, Argolis, Greece

Usage notes

• Τίρυνς ‎(Tíruns) is one of very few names of native Ancient Greek origin that contains the ΝΣ digraph. Furthermore, the nominative case has a long acute-accented penultimate vowel and an apparently short final vowel (ΤῙΡῨΝΣ). However, as this situation can normally only yield a circumflex accent in Classical Attic, the fact that an acute accent remains shows that the final vowel is scanned as long. ΝΣ and ΝΖ are not normally viable in Classical Attic and are normally respelt in inflection as just Σ or Ζ while compensatorily lengthening preceding Ᾰ Ε Ῐ Ο Ῠ to Ᾱ ΕΙ Ῑ ΟΥ Ῡ. Therefore, evidence and established grammar suggest that although Classical Attic retained the spelling as Τίρυνς instead of respelling it Τίρῡς ‎(Tírūs), the standard Classical Attic pronunciation of Τίρυνς was to treat it as Τίρῡς.

Declension

Derived terms

• Τιρύνθιος ‎(Tirúnthios)

Descendants

• Breton: Tiryns
• Catalan: Tirint
• Dutch: Tiryns
• English: Tiryns
• Finnish: Tiryns
• French: Tirynthe
• German: Tiryns
• Greek: Τίρυνς ‎(Tíryns), Τίρυνθα ‎(Tíryntha)
• Hungarian: Tirünsz
• Italian: Tirinto
• Latin: Tiryns
• Norwegian: Tiryns
• Polish: Tiryns
• Portuguese: Tirinto
• Russian: Тиринф ‎(Tirinf)
• Slovak: Tiryns
• Spanish: Tirinto
• Swedish: Tiryns

References

• Τίρυνς in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,028