βράγχος

• βάραγχος (bárankhos), βράγχη (bránkhē)

The resemblance with βρόγχος (brónkhos, “windpipe”) may have caused the semantic shift of βράγχιον (bránkhion, “fin; gill”). Furnée connects the word with βραχώδης (brakhṓdēs, “rough, harsh”), βρακίας (brakías, “rough places”) and βαρακινῇσιν (barakinêisin, “thorns, palisade”). This shows a set of variants βρακ-/βραχ-/βραγχ- which are typical of Pre-Greek. The additional -α- in the first syllable of βάραγχος (bárankhos) may be due to purely phonetic epenthesis, but this type of variation, too, is frequent in Pre-Greek words as well.

βρᾰ́γχος • (bránkhos) m (genitive βρᾰ́γχου); second declension

1. hoarseness or sore throat causing it
2. (pathology) kind of disease of swine, either anthrax or foot-and-mouth disease

• “βράγχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βράγχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βράγχος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βράγχος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN