τύφη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Often regarded as cognate with Latin tuber (“truffle”), English tuft and Old Norse þúfa (“mound”), all from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). However the meaning of the Greek word is sufficiently different to render its connection with the other words purely hypothetical.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tý.pʰɛː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈty.pʰe̝/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈty.ɸi/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈty.fi/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈti.fi/

Noun

τύφη • (túphē) f (genitive τύφης); first declension

plant used for stuffing bolsters and beds
reedmace, cattail, bulrush (Typha angustifolia)
sort of tiara

Inflection

First declension of ἡ τύφη; τῆς τύφης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ τύφη hē túphē	τὼ τύφᾱ tṑ túphā	αἱ τύφαι hai túphai
Genitive	τῆς τύφης tês túphēs	τοῖν τύφαιν toîn túphain	τῶν τυφῶν tôn tuphôn
Dative	τῇ τύφῃ têi túphēi	τοῖν τύφαιν toîn túphain	ταῖς τύφαις taîs túphais
Accusative	τὴν τύφην tḕn túphēn	τὼ τύφᾱ tṑ túphā	τᾱ̀ς τύφᾱς tā̀s túphās
Vocative	τύφη túphē	τύφᾱ túphā	τύφαι túphai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

τυφήρης (tuphḗrēs)

Descendants

→ Translingual: Typha

References

“τύφη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“τύφη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
τύφη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN