γράβιον

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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From a non-Indo-European Balkan substrate word meaning "beech, oak", found also in Greek γάβρος (gávros, hornbeam), Ancient Greek κράββατος (krábbatos, couch, mattress), Russian граб (grab, hornbeam), and Old Prussian wosigrabis. Furnée further compares γοβρίαι (gobríai, torches), which cannot be ignored.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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γρᾰ́βῐον (grábionn (genitive γρᾰβῐ́ου); second declension

  1. torch, brand
    Synonyms: γρῡνός (grūnós), δαΐς (daḯs), δᾰ́ος (dáos), ἑλένη (helénē), λαμπάς (lampás), λοφνίς (lophnís), πανός (panós), πυρσός (pursós), φανή (phanḗ), φρῠκτός (phruktós)

Inflection

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References

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  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “γράβιον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 284

Further reading

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