Ζέφυρος

See also: ζέφυρος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

Cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀽𐁆𐀫 (ze-phu-ro), pointing to Proto-Hellenic *Dzépʰuros. Probably related to ζόφος (zóphos, “darkness, west”), both occasionally connected to Proto-Indo-European *(h₃)yebʰ- (“to cover > to copulate”) (whence οἴφω (oíphō)),[1][2] though either the reflex of the laryngeal in οἴφω (oíphō) or its loss from ζεφ- (zeph-) would be unexplained. More likely Pre-Greek in view of the suffix -υρ- (-ur-) and distant semantics, though Beekes is unsure.[3]

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Ζέφῠρος • (Zéphuros) m (genitive Ζεφῠ́ρου); second declension

  1. Zephyrus, the west wind

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Greek: Ζέφυρος (Zéfyros), ζέφυρος (zéfyros) (learned)
  • → Alemannic German: Zephyros
  • → Azerbaijani: Zefir
  • → Basque: Zefiro
  • → Belarusian: Зефі́р (Zjefír), Зэфі́р (Zefír)
  • → Breton: Zefyros
  • → Bulgarian: Зефир (Zefir)
  • → Chinese: 仄費羅斯/仄费罗斯
  • → Czech: Zefyros
  • → Danish: Zefyr
  • → Dutch: Zephyros
  • → English: Zephyr
  • → Finnish: Zefyros
  • → Georgian: ზეფიროსი (zepirosi)
  • → German: Zephyr
  • → Hebrew: זפירוס‎, זפיר‎
  • → Hungarian: Zephürosz
  • → Japanese: ゼピュロス (Zepyurosu)
  • → Latin: zephyrus m (“the west wind”), Zephyrus (“Zephyrus”)
  • → Lithuanian: Zefyras
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: Sefyros
  • → Old Armenian: զեփիւռ (zepʿiwṙ)
  • → Persian: زفوروس‎
  • → Polish: Zefir
  • → Russian: Зефи́р (Zefír)
    • → Chuvash: Зефир (Zefir)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: Зефир / Zefir
  • → Slovene: Zefir
  • → Swedish: Zefyros
  • → Ukrainian: Зефі́р (Zefír)

References

  1. Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*i̯ebʰ-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 309
  2. Kümmel, Martin Joachim (2011–2015), “*i̯ebʰ- → *h₃i̯ebʰ-”, in Addenda und Corrigenda zu LIV², page 39
  3. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ζέφυρος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 499
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