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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Thracian *Ebrus (“wide”) and thus meaning "the wide river",[1] or from Thracian ebros (“splasher”).[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hé.bros/ → /ˈe.βros/ → /ˈe.vros/
Proper noun
Ἕβρος • (Hébros) m (genitive Ἕβρου); second declension
- the river Hebrus or Evros; the river Maritsa
Inflection
Descendants
References
- ^ Vladimir I. Georgiev (1977) Траките И Техният Език [The Thracians and their Language] (in Bulgarian), Изд-во на Българската академия на науките, page 93
- ^ Duridanov, Ivan Vasiliev (1985) Die Sprache der Thraker, Hieronymus Verlag, →ISBN, pages 30-31, 77
Further reading
- Ἕβρος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,012
- Georgiev, Vladimir Ivanov Georgiev. Introduction to the History of the Indo-European Languages (1981, p. 351)