οὔθα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Possibly from Paleo-Balkan, closely related to Albanian udhë (“path, way, road”).[1]

Noun

οὔθα • (oútha)

(hapax) dust (?); path, way, road
Synonyms: σποδός (spodós); ὁδός (hodós)
- 5th century C.E., Hesychius of Alexandria, Γλώσσαι, Ο.1602:
  οὔθα· σποδός, ὁδός
  oútha; spodós, hodós
  oútha: dust, path

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

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

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