βάδιος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Possibly from a Proto-Albanian *wādya, whence Albanian voc (young boy),[1] although Proto-Albanian */dy/ usually becomes Albanian /z/.

Noun

βάδιος • (bádios) m

  1. (hapax) child
    Synonym: υἱός (huiós)

References

  1. Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak (2016) “The earliest Albanian loanwords in Greek”, in lnternational Conference on Language Contact in the Balkans and Asia Minor, pages 40–41

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