Talk:φᾶρος

etymology

According to Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon, it is from φέρω

It has the sense of "what one carries on one's body". --Diligent (talk) 17:50, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

That apparently seemed plausible to the authors at the time, but generally ε (e) does not alternate with ᾱ (ā) in a Proto-Indo-European root. The alternations that do occur are ᾰ (a) with ᾱ (ā) or with η (ē) in Attic–Ionic, as in the forms of ἵστημι (hístēmi), and ε (e) with η (ē), as in the forms of τίθημι (títhēmi). — Eru·tuon 18:34, 22 June 2019 (UTC)