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|etymtx=-ωνος<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[pennyroyal]], <b class="b2">Mentha pulegium</b> (h. Cer.).<br />Other forms: Ion. <b class="b3">γλήχων</b>, Dor. <b class="b3">γλάχων</b>; also <b class="b3">βληχώ</b>, <b class="b3">-ους</b> (Schwyzer 479); <b class="b3">βληχός</b> = <b class="b3">βλήχων</b> (Thphr, Dsc.).<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[karako]] \/[[glakhon]]\/ but the reading is doubtful.<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">βληχωνίας</b> <b class="b2">prepared with β</b> (Ar.); Chantr. Form. 94f. <b class="b3">γληχωνίτης</b> (<b class="b3">οἶνος</b>; Dsc.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Unknown. The variation <b class="b3">β-</b> βλήχων <b class="b3">γ-</b> could just be dissimilation (Schwyzer 299); cf. <b class="b3">β</b>\/<b class="b3">γλέπω</b>. But as the word also has no etym., and as the stem formation is strange, we rather have to do with a Pre-Gr. word. - For a folketymological connection with <b class="b3">βληχάομαι</b> Strömberg Pflanzennamen 155.

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