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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Middle Persian or a closely related language, from Proto-Iranian *(h)rabā́š (“rhubarb, fennel”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r̥ɛ̂ː.on/ → /ˈri.on/ → /ˈri.on/
Noun
ῥῆον • (rhêon) n (genitive ῥήου); second declension
- rhubarb (probably Rheum rhabarbarum)
Inflection
Descendants
References
- J.P. Mallory & D.Q. Adams, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, s.v. "dew" (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997), 158-9.
- Michiel de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italian Languages, s.v. "rōs, rōris" (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 526-7.
- Nourai, Ali. 2013. An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and Other Indo-European Languages. Index of Words in Different Languages Vol. 1 Vol. 1. p.130.
- Lebedynsky, Iaroslav. Les Sarmates : Amazones et lanciers cuirassés entre Oural et Danube. Paris: Editions Errance, 2002.
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