δυσ-
Ancient Greek
prefix
Definitions
- bad, hard, unfortunate
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *dus- (bad, difficult, ill, wrong).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*dus-
Gloss
bad, difficult, ill, wrong
Concept
Semantic Field
Emotions and values
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
悪
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- dys- English
- dyslexia English
- dystopia English
- dystopian English
- dystopic English
- tore English
- torely English
- dys- Latin
- dyscolus Latin
- dyslexia Latin
- diszlexia Hungarian
- dys- French
- дистрофия Russian
- -κολος Ancient Greek
- δύσκολος Ancient Greek
- *dus- Proto-Indo-European
- *dēwǝ- Proto-Indo-European
- dys- Norwegian Bokmål
- *tuz- Proto-Germanic
- dys- Norwegian Nynorsk
- दुष्यति Sanskrit
- दुस्- Sanskrit
- tor Middle English
- dios- Irish
- tor- Old Norse
- dis- Catalan, Valencian
- tor- Icelandic
- दुर्गंध Hindi
- دزد Persian
- دژ Persian
- δύσκολος Greek (modern)
- 𐍄𐌿𐌶- Gothic
- *dus- Proto-Celtic
- *duš- Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *duš- Proto-Indo-Aryan
- *dušmánah Proto-Iranian