ὄμβρος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[rain]], [[shower]], [[thunder rain]], also [[rainwater]], metaph. [[water]] (Il.).<br />Compounds: As 1. member e.g. in <b class="b3">ὀμβρο-φόρος</b> [[bringing rain]] (A., Ar.); often as 2. member, e.g. <b class="b3">ἔπ-</b>, <b class="b3">κάτ-ομβρος</b> [[rainy]], [[wet because of rain]] (Hp., Arist.; Strömberg Prefix Studies 108f., 145).<br />Derivatives: Several adj.: <b class="b3">ὄμβρ-ιος</b> [[belonging to rain]], [[like rain]] (Pi., Ion.), <b class="b3">-ηρός</b> [[wet]] (Hes.), <b class="b3">-ηλός</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Theognost.: cf. [[ὑδρηλός]] and Chantraine Form. 242), <b class="b3">-ώδης</b> [[abundant in rain]] (Thphr.), <b class="b3">-ικός</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Vett. Val.), <b class="b3">-ιμος</b> = [[belonging to rain]], [[rainy]] (Nic. Th. 388, v.l., PMag. Lond.; Arbenz 25); also [[ἀνομβρήεις]] [[abundant in rain]] (Nic. Al. 288, [[Ὄλυμπος]], from <b class="b3">ἀν-ομβρέω</b>; cf. below). -- Subst. [[ὀμβρία]] f. [[rain]] (sch.; cf. [[ἀντλία]], [[ὑετία]] a.o., Scheller Oxytonierung 54f.). -- Verbs: 1. [[ὀμβρέω]], <b class="b3">-ῆσαι</b>, also with <b class="b3">ἀν-</b>, <b class="b3">ἐπ-</b> a.o., <b class="b2">to (make) rain, to bewet</b> (Hes., LXX, A. R.) with (<b class="b3">ἐπ-)όμβρησις</b> f. <b class="b2">raining etc.</b> (Suid., sch.), [[ὄμβρημα]] n. [[rainwater]] (LXX); 2. [[ὀμβρίζω]] = <b class="b3">-έω</b> (Eust.); 3. [[ὀμβροῦται]] [[imbricitur]] (Gloss.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: With [[ὄμβρος]] one compares first Lat. [[imber]], <b class="b2">-ris</b> -n. <b class="b2">rain(shower)</b> with the same meaning with perhaps second. <b class="b2">i-</b>flexion; Further, with slightly deviating meaning, Skt. <b class="b2">abhrá-m</b> n. [[cloud]]. One assumed that β after nasal could represent an aspirate, which is wrong (pace Schwyzer 333), so <b class="b2">abhra-</b> must be left out (for [[imber]] also <b class="b2">*embhro-</b> is possible). One assumed in these words an <b class="b2">r-</b>stem and beside it an <b class="b2">s-</b>stem, which was seen in Skt. <b class="b2">ámbhas</b> n. [[water]], also [[rainwater]] [for the same reason Arm. [[amb]], [[amp]], gen. <b class="b2">-oy</b> [[cloud]] must be left out.] -- There is no connection with [[νέφος]], [[νεφέλη]] etc. -- Further several Europ. rivernames of Celt. origin(?) have been compared with [[ὄμβρος]], e.g. NHG [[Amper]], Engl. [[Amber]]. -- So wrong Pok. 315f. - So [[ομβρος]] has no etymology; Szemerenyi, Syncope 241f, 249 assumes a loanword (= a Pre-Greek word).