θίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Due to the improbability of the other explanations, Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰǐːs/ → /θis/ → /θis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰǐːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tʰis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /θis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /θis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /θis/

Noun

θῑ́ς • (thī́s) m (genitive θῑνός); third declension

1. heap (especially of sand)
2. beach, shore
3. sandbank, bar at the mouth of the river
4. sand or mud at the bottom of the sea
5. shoreweed

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ θῑ́ς ho thī́s	τὼ θῖνε tṑ thîne	οἱ θῖνες hoi thînes
Genitive	τοῦ θῑνός toû thīnós	τοῖν θῑνοῖν toîn thīnoîn	τῶν θῑνῶν tôn thīnôn
Dative	τῷ θῑνῐ́ tôi thīnĭ́	τοῖν θῑνοῖν toîn thīnoîn	τοῖς θῑσῐ́ / θῑσῐ́ν toîs thīsĭ́(n)
Accusative	τὸν θῖνᾰ tòn thînă	τὼ θῖνε tṑ thîne	τοὺς θῖνᾰς toùs thînăs
Vocative	θῑ́ς thī́s	θῖνε thîne	θῖνες thînes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Third declension of ὁ θῑ́ς; τοῦ θῑνός (Attic)

Derived terms

• ἀποθινόομαι (apothinóomai)
• ἀκροθίνια (akrothínia)

Descendants

• Greek: θίνα (thína)
• Tsakonian: σχίνα (schína)

References

• “θίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• θίς 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