κυσήγη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Possibly from a Proto-Albanian *k_ušēgā, whence Albanian shegë (“pomegranate”).[1]

Noun

κυσήγη • (kusḗgē) f

(hapax) pomegranate
Synonym: ῥόα (rhóa)
- 5th century C.E., Hesychius of Alexandria, Γλώσσαι, Κ.4730:
  κυσήγη· ῥοιά
  kusḗgē; rhoiá
  kusḗgē: pomegranate

References

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

Further reading

“κυσήγη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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