ῥίμφα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *wrenkʷʰa, from Proto-Indo-European *wrengʰ-, see also Proto-Germanic *wringaną (“to squeeze”), Lithuanian rangus (“flexible”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ím.pʰa/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈrim.pʰa/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈrim.ɸa/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈrim.fa/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈrim.fa/
Adverb
ῥίμφᾰ • (rhímpha)
- fast, quickly
References
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ῥίμφα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1286
Further reading
- “ῥίμφα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ῥίμφα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ῥίμφα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press