Ancient Greek words first recorded in the 4th century

It is known only from two glosses of Hesychius, and its reading has long been doubted, because Hesychius also has ἀηδῆσαι (aēdêsai, “to be weary”), ἀηδέομεν (aēdéomen, “we are weary”) and ἀηδής…

It goes with πήνη (pḗnē, “thread of the woof”), whose origin is unknown. Beekes rejects a link with the verb πένομαι (pénomai, “to spin”) because of Doric ⟨ᾱ⟩ in πανίον (paníon). Since Curtius and…

It is the Doric form, with /aː/ for Attic-Ionic /ɛː/, of the noun at the base, from Ancient Greek σκήπτομαι (skḗptomai, “to lean on, prop oneself”), σκῆπτρον (skêptron, “staff, sceptre”), Doric…

It is probably inherited from Proto-Indo-European *teru- (“tender, weak”). Beekes and Frisk compare the related gloss τερύνης (terúnēs) with Avestan tauruna- (“young, tender”), from…

Beekes considers the whole group Pre-Greek, because its members alternate φ with β (βαλιός (baliós, “dappled”)), τ with θ and κ with γ, and show Pre-Greek suffixes, as in φαλακρός (phalakrós…