Discussion of Greek place-names ending in -σις, their formation (from future stems or passive perfect participles), accentuation and phonological variants, with many examples and citations.
λέγεται καὶ Τέντυρα ἡ πόλις, ὡς Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν τρίτῳ Αἰγυπτιακῶν. Ξενέφυρις κώμη Λιβύης πλησίον Ἀλεξανδρείας. Τὰ εἰς 'σις' ἀπὸ μέλλοντος γινόμενα ἢ ἀπὸ δευτέρου προσώπου τοῦ παθητικοῦ παρακειμένου βαρύνονται, ποιήσω ποίησις, λύσω λύσις, κέκρισαι κρίσις, στάσις. ἔστι καὶ Στάσις πόλις Περσικὴ ἐπὶ πέτρης μεγάλης. τρῆσις καὶ Εὔτρησις κώμη Βοιωτίας. Ὅμηρος «Κώπας Εὔτρησίν τε» (Il. Β 502). ἐκλήθη δὲ οὕτως διὰ τὸ πολλαῖς αὐτὴν πρότερον χρήσασθαι ῥύμαις, ὡς Ἐπαφρόδιτος. ἄνυσις. ἐστὶ καὶ πόλις Αἰγύπτου Ἄνυσις. Τὰ μέντοι παρώνυμα χαίρουσι τῇ ὀξείᾳ, Χρύσης Χρυσίς, νῆσος νησίς. Κροῦσις ὁ Μυγδόνος υἱός, Κρουσίς μοῖρα τῆς Μυγδονίας. Στράβων ἑβδόμῃ. Βροῦσος Ἠμαθίου παῖς Βρουσίς μοῖρα Μακεδονίας. τινὲς γράφουσι διὰ τοῦ 'υ'. Κρής καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς Κρητός γενικῆς Κρῆτις καὶ τροπῇ τοῦ 'τ' εἰς 'σ' Κρησίς. Κόρση δούλη βουκόλος Κορσίς νῆσος ἐν τῷ Τυρρηνικῷ πελάγει. Πισίδης Πισίς πόλις καὶ ὄρος Ἀρμενίας ἢ Σουσιανῆς. Ἀρκασίδης Ἀρκασίς. Γυμνησίς ἀπὸ Γύμνητος γενικῆς τροπῇ τοῦ 'τ' εἰς 'σ'. Μαγνησίς παρὰ Παρθενίῳ. Ἀμνισίς νύμφαι Ἀμνισίδες, Ἀνθεμουσίς λίμνη Μαριανδυνῶν, ἣν Ἀπολλώνιος διαλύσας ἐν τοῖς Ἀργοναυτικοῖς (II 726) Ἀνθεμοεισίδα φησίν. Δαφνουσίς λίμνη πλησίον τοῦ Ὀλύμπου τοῦ Βιθυνοῦ, Μαυρουσίς, Μολοσσίς, Μυγισσίς, Ἰλισσίς «Μοῦσαι Ἰλισσίδες» ὡς Ἀπολλόδωρος, Μυκαλησίς Μυκαλησσίς, Κανδασίς, Ὀδρυσίς, Ἁλικαρνασσίς, Παρνασσίς, Τευμησσίς, Παρρασίς «δέξονται Φολόης οὔρεα Παρρασίδος». Τελμισσίς, Πειρασίς, Ὑπερησίς παρ´ Ἡσιόδῳ, Ῥαμνουσίς. σεσημείωται τὸ ἄσις ὁ ῥύπος ἀπὸ τοῦ ἄση γεγονός. τὸ δὲ Ἀσίς ἡ Ἀσιᾶτις ὀξύνεται. * Τὰ εἰς 'σις' κύρια βαρύνεται, Κρεῦσις πόλις Βοιωτίας, κειμένη καταντικρὺ τῆς Μεγαρίδος, Κροῦσις, Τῖσις ὁ κτιστὴς καὶ ἡ πόλις Αἰγύπτου, Ἶσις, Φᾶσις πόλις τῆς Αἴας πρὸς τῷ Φάσιδι ποταμῷ ἐν Κόλχοις. ἐκτίσθη δὲ ὑπὸ Μιλησίων. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλος ποταμὸς Φᾶσις ἐν τῇ Ταπροβάνῃ. Αὔασις πόλις Αἰγύπτου· ταύτην δὲ καὶ Ὄασιν καὶ Ὕασιν καλοῦσιν. «ἔστι δ´ ἐοικυῖα παρδαλέᾳ· κατάστικτος γάρ ἐστιν ἐν ἀνύδρῳ γῇ καὶ ἐρήμῳ τὰς οἰκήσεις ἔχουσα. τὰ τοιαῦτα αὐάσεις Αἰγύπτιοί φασι». Ἡρόδοτος δὲ (III 26) καὶ Δοῦρις Μακάρων αὐτὴν ὠνόμασαν νῆσον. Κύπασις πόλις περὶ Ἑλλήσποντον. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. Καύκασις τὸ ὄρος ὃ καὶ Καύκασος λέγεται. Τὰ εἰς 'τις' δισύλλαβα ἔχοντα τὸ 'ο' μικρὸν ἤτοι μόνον ἢ σὺν ἑτέρῳ
It is also said Τέντυρα, the city, as Alexander [says] in the third book of the Αἰγυπτιακά. Ξενέφυρις, a village of Libya near Alexandria. The words in -σις formed from a future, or from the second person of the perfect passive, are barytone: ποιήσω, ποίησις; λύσω, λύσις; κέκρισαι, κρίσις; στάσις. There is also Στάσις, a Persian city on a great rock. τρῆσις, and Εὔτρησις, a village of Boeotia. Homer: «Κώπας Εὔτρησίν τε» (Il. Β 502). And it was so called because formerly it made use of many streets, as Epaphroditus [says]. ἄνυσις. There is also a city of Egypt, Ἄνυσις. The paronyms, however, take pleasure in the acute: Χρύσης, Χρυσίς; νῆσος, νησίς. Κροῦσις, the son of Mygdon; Κρουσίς, a district of Mygdonia. Strabo, in the seventh [book]. Βροῦσος, son of Emathius; Βρουσίς, a district of Macedonia. Some write it with υ. Κρής, and from the genitive Κρητός, Κρῆτις, and by changing τ to σ, Κρησίς. Κόρση, a slave, a cowherd; Κορσίς, an island in the Tyrrhenian sea. Πισίδης; Πισίς, a city and a mountain of Armenia or Susiana. Ἀρκασίδης; Ἀρκασίς. Γυμνησίς, from the genitive Γύμνητος, by changing τ to σ. Μαγνησίς, in Parthenius. Ἀμνισίς: nymphs Ἀμνισίδες. Ἀνθεμουσίς, a lake of the Mariandynians, which Apollonius, resolving [the form] in the Argonautica (II 726), calls Ἀνθεμοεισίδα. Δαφνουσίς, a lake near Bithynian Olympus; Μαυρουσίς, Μολοσσίς, Μυγισσίς, Ἰλισσίς—«Μοῦσαι Ἰλισσίδες», as Apollodorus [says]—Μυκαλησίς, Μυκαλησσίς, Κανδασίς, Ὀδρυσίς, Ἁλικαρνασσίς, Παρνασσίς, Τευμησσίς, Παρρασίς: «δέξονται Φολόης οὔρεα Παρρασίδος». Τελμισσίς, Πειρασίς, Ὑπερησίς in Hesiod, Ῥαμνουσίς. It has been noted: ἄσις, ‘filth’, formed from ἄση. But Ἀσίς, ‘the Asiatic woman’, is oxytone. * The proper names in -σις are barytone: Κρεῦσις, a city of Boeotia, lying opposite the Megarid; Κροῦσις; Τῖσις, the founder and the city of Egypt; Ἶσις; Φᾶσις, a city of Aia by the river Φάσις among the Colchians. And it was founded by Milesians. There is also another river Φᾶσις in Taprobane. Αὔασις, a city of Egypt; and they also call it Ὄασιν and Ὕασιν. «It is like a leopard; for it is spotted, having its dwellings in a waterless and desert land. Such things the Egyptians call αὐάσεις.» Herodotus (III 26) and Duris called it the island of the Blessed. Κύπασις, a city near the Hellespont. Hecataeus, in the Ευρώπη. Καύκασις, the mountain which is also called Καύκασος. The disyllables in -τις having short ο, either alone or with another…