ῥέγκω: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: v.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">to snore, to snort</b> (A., E., com., Arist. [v. l.]).<br />Other forms: <b class="b3">ῥέγχω</b> (Hp., Arist., Herod., hell. a. late). Note <b class="b3">ῥεγχ-</b>, <b class="b3">ῥοχμ-</b>, <b class="b3">ῥωχμ-</b>.<br />Compounds: Rarely w. <b class="b3">ἀπο-</b>, <b class="b3">ὑπο-</b>, <b class="b3">παρα-</b>.<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">ῥέγκ-ος</b> (<b class="b3">-χ-</b>) n. [[snore]] with <b class="b3">-ώδης</b> <b class="b2">snore-like</b>, <b class="b3">ῥέγξις</b> f. <b class="b2">id.</b> (Hp.). -- Beside it some iterative-intensive formations with <b class="b3">ο-</b>voc.: <b class="b3">ῥογκιῆν ῥέγκειν</b>. <b class="b3">Ἐπίχαρμος</b> H. (after the verbs of disease in <b class="b3">-ιάω</b>); <b class="b3">ῥογχάζειν</b> H. as explanation of <b class="b3">ῥυγχιάζειν</b> with <b class="b3">ῥογχ-ασμός</b> = <b class="b3">ῥέγχος</b> (Gal.), <b class="b3">-αστής</b> = [[nasator]] (gloss.); <b class="b3">ῥογχ-αλίζω</b> [[to snore]] (gloss.; after <b class="b3">γαργαλίζω</b> a.o.); also <b class="b3">ῥόγχος</b> (Cael. Aur.), <b class="b3">ῥωχμός</b> = <b class="b3">ῥέγχος</b> (Erot.); to this <b class="b3">ῥωγμός</b>, <b class="b3">ῥοχμός</b>, <b class="b3">ῥογμός</b> [[to hiss]] (late medic.); <b class="b3">ῥώχω</b> <b class="b2">to hiss, to chatter one's teeth</b> (Sor., H.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: Onomatop. word, that may have a close agreement in Celtis, in OIr. [[srennim]] [[snort]] < <b class="b2">*srenk-nā-mi</b>, with MIr. [[srēimm]] [[snoring]] < <b class="b2">*srenk-s-mn̥</b> (would be Gr. <b class="b3">*ῥέγχμα</b>). -- WP. 2, 705, Pok. 1002; on it Meid IF 65, 39; on the formation cf. Schwyzer 692. Cf. [[ῥύγχος]]. -- The variation may point to a Pre-Greek word.