Ῥοδανός

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See also: Ροδανός

Ancient Greek[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *Rodonos, *Rotonos, from a Proto-Celtic root similar to *reteti (to flow, run, roll). Lambert argues that this could have prefixed a second element akin to the root of the river name Danube, Proto-Indo-European *dʰenh₂- (to set in motion; to flow).[1] Alternatively, possibly from a hypothetical Proto-Celtic *ɸro-dena- (to flow forth), from Proto-Indo-European *pro- (toward, forward) and the previously mentioned root.

Pronunciation[edit]

 

Proper noun[edit]

Ῥοδᾰνός (Rhodanósm (genitive Ῥοδᾰνοῦ); second declension

  1. the river Rhône

Declension[edit]

Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,024
  1. ^ Pierre-Yves Lambert, La langue gauloise, Paris, Errance, 1995, 240 p., p. 37

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