ἔραζε

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• (Doric): ἔρασδε (érasde, “on the earth”)

Etymology

Resembles Proto-Germanic *erþō (“earth, ground, soil”), whence Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸𐌰 (airþa), Old Norse jǫrð, Old English eorþe, English earth, and Proto-Celtic *arwī, whence Welsh erw (“field”). Possibly all come from Proto-Indo-European *h₁er- (“earth”), but the reconstruction is not certain.

Adverb

ἔραζε • (éraze)

1. to the ground

References

• “ἔραζε”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἔραζε”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἔραζε in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἔραζε in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • earth idem, page 259.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 449