סריס
Hebrew
| Root |
|---|
| ס־ר־ס (s-r-s) |
Etymology
Borrowed from Akkadian ša rēši (literally “who is at the head”), cognate to זֶה + רֹאשׁ. The root ס־ר־ס (s-r-s) is denominative.
Pronunciation
- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /saˈʁis/
Further reading
- H5631 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Klein, Ernest (1987) “סָרִיס”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English, Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 459a
- A. Murtonen (1989) “SRS”, in Hebrew in Its West Semitic Setting, Part I, Section Bb, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 307
- “סריס” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
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