δυσ-

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dus-. Cognate to Proto-Germanic *tuz- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”) (English tore).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /dys/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /dys/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ðys/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðys/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðis/

Prefix

δῠσ- • (dus-)

bad, hard, unfortunate

Derived terms

Ancient Greek terms prefixed with δυσ-

Further reading

“δυσ-”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
δυσ- in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
δυσ- in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
G1418 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

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