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|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[frog]] (Hdt.). Also name of a fish <b class="b2">Lophius piscatorius</b> (Arist.), s. Strömberg Fischnamen 92f.).<br />Other forms: Ion. <b class="b3">βάθρακος</b> with normal displacement of aspiration (Schwyzer 269, Lejeune, Phonét. 50); <b class="b3">βότραχος</b> (Hp.) and <b class="b3">βρόταχος</b> (Xenoph. 40, s. Bechtel Dial. 3, 109); <b class="b3">βρατάχους βατράχους</b> H.; - <b class="b3">βρούχετος</b> .. <b class="b3">βάτραχον δε Κύπριοι</b> H. (after <b class="b3">βρυχάομαι</b>?, Schwyzer 182); <b class="b3">βύρθακος βάτραχος</b> H.; <b class="b3">βρύτιχοι βάτραχοι μικροὶ ἔχοντες οὑράς</b> H. (cf. <b class="b3">βρύω</b>?); - <b class="b3">βριαγχόνην βάτραχον</b>. <b class="b3">Φωκεῖς</b> H. (mistake?; for <b class="b3">*βρ(α)τ-αγχ-</b>?); <b class="b3">βρόγχος βάτραχος</b> H. may also be a mistake); still <b class="b3">βλίκανος</b>, <b class="b3">βλίκαρος</b>, <b class="b3">βλίχα(ς</b>) (H., EM, Suid.); <b class="b3">βλίταχος</b> (H.). - <b class="b3">βάβακοι ὑπὸ Ήλείων τέττιγες</b>, <b class="b3">ὑπὸ Ποντικῶν δε βάτραχοι</b> H. (<b class="b3">βαβάζω</b>, s. v.). - Mod. Gr. forms in Hatzidakis Lexikogr. Archiv (Anh. <b class="b3">Ἀθ</b>. 26) 48ff., also G. Meyer IF 6, 107f.<br />Derivatives: Demin. <b class="b3">βατράχιον</b> (Paus.), plant [[Ranunculus]] (Hp., Dsc., cf. Strömberg Pflanzennamen 119); <b class="b3">βατραχίσκοι μέρος τι τῆς κιθάρας</b> H.; on the suffixes Chantr. Form. 408. - <b class="b3">βατραχίτης</b>, <b class="b3">-ῖτις</b> (<b class="b3">λίθος</b>; from the colour; Plin.; s. Redard Les noms grecs en <b class="b3">-της</b> 53).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Several variants will be due to folketymology or taboo, and also simple phonetic variation. A priori for all these forms a local, i.e. Pre-Gr. form is to be expected. To this will point the variation <b class="b3">α</b>\/<b class="b3">ο</b>. This holds also for <b class="b3">βαρδακος</b> if this must be read in H. for <b class="b3">βαρακος βάραχος</b> (Fur. 184 A. 2; s. Latte). The form may in origin have been onomat.? (cf. Grošelj, Živa Ant. 6 (1956) 235) <b class="b3">βρατ-αχ-</b>, cf. <b class="b3">βρεκεκεξ</b>. Or even <b class="b2">*brt-ak-</b>, from which the forms with <b class="b3">-υ-</b> might come (<b class="b3">βύρθακος</b>, <b class="b3">βρύτιχος</b>). The desperate forms <b class="b3">βριαγχόνη</b>, <b class="b3">βρόγχος</b> (this form to be read for <b class="b3">βρούχετος</b>?) contain a (misread) prenasalized *(<b class="b3">βρατ)αγχος</b>, which would also point to Pre-Greek. On the <b class="b3">χ-</b>suffix in animal names Specht Ursprung 255. - The forms <b class="b3">βλικ</b>\/<b class="b3">χ-</b> and <b class="b3">βάβακοι</b>, of course, are etymologically unrelated. - For the meaning [[hearth]] Szemerényi, Gnomon 43 (1971) 660 refers to Alb. [[vatre]].

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