Βάρδυλις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms
  • Βάρδυλλις (Bárdullis)

Etymology

From Illyrian. Widely connected to Albanian bardhë (“white”)[1][2][3][4] and Messapic *barzides, although a more scrupulous investigation would note the unusual and rather early deaffricativisation of the original *-ǵ- into what Greek authors heard as -δ- (-d-). A noteworthy mention is also the similarity with the Illyrian tribe Bardaeī, which as variant of Vardaeī, Vardiaeī, Ἀρδιαῖοι (Ardiaîoi), Οὐαρδαῖοι (Ouardaîoi) points to the plosivisation of an original initial *w-.

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Βάρδῠλις • (Bárdulis) m (genitive Βαρδῠ́λῐδος); third declension

  1. Bardylis: a chief of the Illyrians defeated by Philip of Macedonia

Inflection
Third declension of ὁ Βάρδῠλῐς; τοῦ Βαρδῠ́λῐδος (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Βάρδῠλῐς
ho Bárdulis
Genitive τοῦ Βαρδῠ́λῐδος
toû Bardúlidos
Dative τῷ Βαρδῠ́λῐδῐ
tôi Bardúlidi
Accusative τὸν Βαρδῠ́λῐδᾰ
tòn Bardúlida
Vocative Βάρδῠλῐς
Bárdulis
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
  • Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants
  • Greek: Βάρδυλις (Várdylis)
  • → Latin: Bardylis
  • → Albanian: Bardhyl, Bardhyll

References
  1. Alexandru Rosetti (1973) Brève histoire de la langue roumaine des origines à nos jours (in French), →DOI, page 52
  2. Pavle Ivić (1985) Zbornik Šeste jugoslovenske onomastičke konferencije: Donji Milanovac, page 59
  3. Demiraj, B. (1997) “bárdhë”, in Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎ (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 90
  4. Schumacher, Stefan, Matzinger, Joachim (2013) Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Albanische Forschungen; 33) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 220, 238

Further reading
  • “Bardylis”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • Bardylis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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