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Ancient Greek
Etymology
The etymon is clearly onomatopoeic. Although the variation is certainly due in part to the onomatopoeic character of the word, many of the alternations would also fit a Pre-Greek origin. Similar forms in Celtic, like Old Irish srennaid (“to snore”), may derive from Proto-Indo-European *sregʰ- (“to snore”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r̥éŋ.kɔː/ → /ˈreŋ.ɡo/ → /ˈreŋ.ɡo/
Verb
ῥέγκω • (rhénkō)
- to snore
- (of horses) to snort
Inflection
Derived terms
Further reading
- “ῥέγκω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥέγκω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ῥέγκω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ῥέγκω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1278