Τίρυνς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Τῑ́ρῠνς • (Tī́runs) m (genitive Τῑ́ρῠνθος); third declension

  1. Tiryns; Tiryntha, Argolis, Greece

Usage notes
  • Τίρυνς (Tíruns) is one of very few names of native Ancient Greek origin that contains the ΝΣ digraph. Furthermore, the nominative case has a long acute-accented penultimate vowel and an apparently short final vowel (ΤῙΡῨΝΣ). However, as this situation can normally only yield a circumflex accent in Classical Attic, the fact that an acute accent remains shows that the final vowel is scanned as long. ΝΣ and ΝΖ are not normally viable in Classical Attic and are normally respelt in inflection as just Σ or Ζ while compensatorily lengthening preceding Ᾰ Ε Ῐ Ο Ῠ to Ᾱ ΕΙ Ῑ ΟΥ Ῡ. Therefore, evidence and established grammar suggest that although Classical Attic retained the spelling as Τίρυνς instead of respelling it Τίρῡς (Tírūs), the standard Classical Attic pronunciation of Τίρυνς was to treat it as Τίρῡς.

Declension
Third declension of ἡ Τῑ́ρῠνς; τῆς Τῑ́ρῠνθος (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Τῑ́ρῠνς
hē Tī́runs
Genitive τῆς Τῑ́ρῠνθος
tês Tī́runthos
Dative τῇ Τῑ́ρῠνθῐ
têi Tī́runthi
Accusative τὴν Τῑ́ρῠνθᾰ
tḕn Tī́runtha
Vocative Τῑ́ρῠνς
Tī́runs
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 *-tʰs.

Derived terms
  • Τῑρῠ́νθῐος (Tīrúnthios)

Descendants

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