Phrygian

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Etymology

From Latin Phrygiānus + English -an (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Phrygianus is derived from Phrygia + -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’); and Phrygia is from Ancient Greek Φρῠγῐ́ᾱ (Phrugíā, “region in Anatolia”),^[1] from Φρῠ́ξ (Phrúx, “person from Phrygia”) (further etymology unknown, possibly from Phrygian or related to Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to ascend, rise up; to be elevated, up high”)) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɪ.d͡ʒɪ.ən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɪ.d͡ʒi.ən/

• Audio (General American):

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• Hyphenation: Phryg‧i‧an

Adjective

Phrygian (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their culture.
2. Written or spoken in the Phrygian language.
   • 2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 114:

     ‘Then one day one of the infants stretched out his little hands to the shepherd and exclaimed bekos, which is the Phrygian word for bread.’

Derived terms

• Hyperphrygian
• Phrygian cap
• Phrygian dominant scale
• Phrygian mode
• Phrygian Sibyl

 

Translations

of or relating to Phrygia, its people or their culture

Armenian: փռյուգական (hy) (pʻṙyugakan) Bulgarian: фригийски (frigijski) Catalan: frigi (ca) Finnish: fryygialainen (fi) Galician: frixio German: phrygisch (de) Greek: φρυγικός (el) (frygikós) Hebrew: פְרִיגִי (he) m (frigi) Hungarian: fríg (hu) Icelandic: frýgískur Irish: Frigiach Italian: frigio (it) m Polish: frygijski (pl) Portuguese: frígio (pt) Russian: фриги́йский (ru) (frigíjskij) Spanish: frigio (es)

written or spoken in the Phrygian language

German: phrygisch (de) Russian: фриги́йский (ru) (frigíjskij)

Noun

Phrygian (plural Phrygians)

1. A native or inhabitant of Phrygia.
   • 2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 114:

     ‘And so Psammetichus decided the Phrygians must have been the first race on earth, and Phrygian the first language.’

2. A Montanist.

Translations

native or inhabitant of Phrygia

Armenian: փռյուգացի (pʻṙyugacʻi) Bulgarian: фригиец m (frigiec) Catalan: frigi (ca) m Esperanto: friĝiano (man or woman), friĝianino (woman) Finnish: fryygialainen (fi) French: Phrygien (fr) m, Phrygienne (fr) f Galician: frixio m German: Phryger m, Phrygerin f Greek: Φρύγας (el) m (Frýgas) Ancient: Φρύξ m (Phrúx) Hungarian: fríg (hu) Polish: Frygijczyk (pl) m, Frygijka (pl) f Portuguese: frígio (pt) m Russian: фриги́ец (ru) m (frigíjec), фриги́йка (ru) f (frigíjka) Spanish: frigio (es) m

Proper noun

Phrygian

1. The language of the Phrygian people.
2. (music) Phrygian mode

Derived terms

• hypophrygian

Translations

language

Armenian: փռյուգերեն (hy) (pʻṙyugeren) Dutch: Frygisch (nl) Finnish: fryygia (fi) French: phrygien (fr) m Galician: frixio m German: Phrygisch Greek: φρυγική (el) (frygikí), φρυγικά (el) (frygiká) Hungarian: fríg (hu) Portuguese: frígio (pt) m Russian: фриги́йский (ru) m (frigíjskij) Spanish: frigio (es) m

References

1. “Phrygian, n. and adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2024; “Phrygian, adj. and n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Further reading

• Phrygian on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Phrygian language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia