βορέας

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[Seite 453] ὁ, bes. bei att. Dichtern, ion. βορέης, zsgzn βορῆς, Her. 2, 101; Hom. βορέης Iliad. 9, 5 Odyss. 19, 200, genit. βορέω Iliad. 14, 395 Odyss. 14, 533, βορέαο Iliad. 5, 524 Odyss. 13, 110, βορέῃ Iliad. 15, 26 Odyss. 5, 331, βορέην Iliad. 23, 208 Odyss. 9, 67; eigtl. att. Form βοῤῥᾶς, ᾶ, Thuc. 6, 2; Plat. Crit. 112 b; der Nordwin d. (eigtl. N. N. O.); die Himmelsgegend, Norden; πρὸς βορέαν τινός, nördlich von, Thuc. 2, 96 u. A.

Frisk Etymological English

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Grammatical information: m.
Meaning: north wind, north, also PN (Il.); s. Nielsen, Class. et Mediaeval. 7, 1ff.
Dialectal forms: (Att.) contr. βορρᾶς, -ᾶ(s. Scheller, Oxytonierung 114), Ion. βορέης, contr. βορῆς, -έω (Ion.), Lesb. βορίαις (ι < ε; αι for a).
Derivatives: βόρειος, Ion. βορήιος (Chantr. Form 52, Schwyzer 468 : 3) of the north wind ; fem. also βορε(ι)άς, βορηιάς (A.).- Local ladverbs: βορέηθεν, βορρᾶθεν, βορρόθεν etc. - Denom.: βορεύω come from the north (Thphr.).
Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [477] *gʷ(o)rH- mountain
Etymology: Uncertain. Taken as wind from the mountains, to a word for mountain seen in Skt.. girí-, Av. gairi-, Lith. gìrė wood, OCS. gora, cf. Illyr. bora mountain in names (Krahe IF 57, 125ff.); s. also δειράς. So the Υπερ-βόρεοι prop. are those living beyond the mountains (Pedersen KZ 36, 319). The formation, however, is unclear; s. Pedersen Cinq. décl. lat. 66, Schwyzer 461. (On wind names in -ίας Chantr. Form. 95.). Is it an IE formation?-