Τόμυρις

Τόμυρις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Saka, reconstructed as:[1][2]

• *Tumurī̆ or *Tumuriya
• *Taumurī̆ or *Taumuriya
• *Θumurī̆ or *Θumuriya
• *Θaumurī̆ or *Θaumuriya
• *Θvāmurī̆ or *Θvāmuriya.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tó.my.ris/ → /ˈto.my.ris/ → /ˈto.mi.ris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tó.my.ris/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈto.my.ris/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈto.my.ris/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈto.my.ris/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈto.mi.ris/

Proper noun

Τόμυρῐς • (Tómuris) f (genitive Τομύριος); third declension

1. a female given name from Scythian: The queen of the Massagetae

Declension

Third declension of ἡ Τόμῠρῐς; τῆς Τομῠ́ρῐος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Τόμῠρῐς hē Tómuris
Genitive	τῆς Τομῠ́ρῐος tês Tomúrios
Dative	τῇ Τομῠ́ρῑ têi Tomúrī
Accusative	τὴν Τόμῠρῐν tḕn Tómurin
Vocative	Τόμῠρῐ Tómuri
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

1. Rüdiger Schmitt (2003), “Die skythischen Personennamen bei Herodot [Scythian Personal Names in Herodotus]”, in Annali dell'Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale‎ (in German), volume 63, pages 1-31
2. Mikhail Bukharin (2011), “Колаксай и его братья (античная традиция о происхождении царской власти у скифов [Kolaxais and his Brothers (Classical Tradition on the Origin of the Royal Power of the Scythians)]”, in Аристей: вестник классической филологии и античной истории‎ (in Russian), volume 3, retrieved 2022-07-13, pages 20-80

Further reading

• Τόμυρις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette