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|etymtx=Grammatical information: m., f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">young of the deer, fawn</b> (Il.).<br />Compounds: As 1. member e.g. in <b class="b3">νεβρο-τόκος</b> [[bringing forth fawns]] (Nic.).<br />Derivatives: Several derivv, most poet. a. late 1. Subst. : <b class="b3">νεβρίς</b>, <b class="b3">-ίδος</b> f. [[fawnskin]] (E.) with <b class="b3">νεβρίδ-ιον</b> (Artem.) and <b class="b3">νεβριζω</b> [[wear a fawnskin]] (D. 18, 259, beside <b class="b3">κρατηρίζω</b> [[drink a bowl]], of the participants of a Dionysosfeast), <b class="b3">νεβρισμός</b> <b class="b2">wearing νεβρίς</b> (gramm.); <b class="b3">νεβρῆ</b> f. <b class="b2">id.</b> (Orph.); <b class="b3">νεβρίας</b> m. name of a shark (<b class="b3">γαλεός</b>, Arist.; because of the colour, cf. Thompson Fishes s.v.), <b class="b3">ἔλαφος νεβρίας</b> H. s. <b class="b3">λάδας</b>; <b class="b3">νέβρακες οἱ ἄρρενες νεοττοὶ τῶν ἀλεκτρυόνων</b> H. (cf. <b class="b3">σκύλαξ</b>, <b class="b3">πόρταξ</b> and Chantraine Form. 379); <b class="b3">νεβρίτης λίθος</b> (Orph.), <b class="b3">-ῖτις</b> (Plin.), because of the colour (Redard 58). -- 2. Adj.: <b class="b3">νέβρινος</b> (S.), <b class="b3">νέβρειος</b> (Call., APl.) [[of a fawn]], <b class="b3">νέβρειον</b> name of the Pastinaca sativa (Ps.-Dsc.; Strömberg Wortstudien 50); <b class="b3">νεβρώδης</b> [[fawnlike]] (AP). -- 3. Verb: <b class="b3">νεβρόομαι</b> [[be changed into a fawn]] (Nonn.).<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: With <b class="b3">νεβρός</b> agrees exactly Arm. [[nerk]], <b class="b2">-oy</b> [[colour]], if from IE *(<b class="b2">s)negʷro-</b>. It is derived from <b class="b2">nerk-anem</b> [[colour]], which has the form of a primary verb (aor. <b class="b2">nerk-i</b>). But the word for [[deer]] has nothing to do with it. Deer and hind are often called after their colour, e.g. <b class="b3">πρόξ</b>, <b class="b3">προκάς</b> <b class="b2">deer- or roe-like animal</b> to <b class="b3">περκνός</b> [[speckled]], <b class="b3">πρεκνόν ποικιλόχροον ἔλαφον</b> H. Also Lat. [[niger]] [[black]] has been compared; on the meaning cf. a.o. <b class="b3">περκνός</b> also [[darkspotted]], [[blackish]] and Porzig Gliederung 167 (doubts in W.-Hofmann s.v.). But the meaning has nothing to do with [[deer]]. -- Diff. on [[nerk]] (backformation from primary [[nerkanem]] with a very complicated etymology) Belardi Ric. ling. 1, 147 f.; s. also Pagliaro Rend. Acc. Linc. 8 : 16, 2 n. 6.