σκύτη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Furnée compares this word, together with σκύτα (skúta, “neck, throat”), to κοττίς (kottís, “occiput”) and προκόττα (prokótta, “forelock”) and assumes a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ský.tɛː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsky.te̝/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈscy.ti/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈscy.ti/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsci.ti/

Noun

σκύτη • (skútē)

Hesychius' gives the definition as: κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”).

References

“σκύτη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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
Hesychius' Lexicon: σ

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