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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Thracian *brutos (“beer, a type of barley beer”).[1] According to Pokorny, this is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to boil, be hot”).[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /brŷː.tos/ → /ˈβry.tos/ → /ˈvri.tos/
Noun
βρῦτος • (brûtos) m (genitive βρῡ́του); second declension
- beer made of barley
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References
- ^ Duridanov, Ivan Vasiliev (1985) Die Sprache der Thraker [The Language of the Thracians] (in German), Hieronymus Verlag, →ISBN, page 16
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “143-45”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 143-45
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