The Ancient Macedonian word βασίλισσα
| Word | βασίλισσα |
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| IPA | basi.lissa |
| Meaning | queen |
| See also |
Homeric Greek: βασίλη
‘queen, princess’ Homeric Greek: βασίλεια ‘queen, princess’ Linear B: qa-si-re-u ‘king, local leader’ |
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| The term is obviously common with the rest of Greece, however it is never attested with the suffix -ισσα outside Macedonia. Kalleris (1954) and Beekes (2010) argue that the suffix is found outside Macedonia e.g. Φοίνισσα, μέλισσα, Κίλισσα etc, but Filos (2015) is not convinced that the Macedonia -(ί)σ(σ)α is the same. | |
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Other words that might be of interest |
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| ταγός ‘leader, lord’, σκοῖδος ‘commander, manager, treasurer’ | |