κυσήγη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Noun

κυσήγη • (kusḗgē) f

  1. (hapax legomenon) pomegranate
    Synonym: ῥόα (rhóa)

References

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

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