βράγχος

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Ancient Greek

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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The resemblance with βρόγχος (brónkhos, windpipe) may have caused the semantic shift of βράγχιον (bránkhion, fin; gill). Furnée connects the word with βραχώδης (brakhṓdēs, rough, harsh), βρακίας (brakías, rough places) and βαρακινῇσιν (barakinêisin, thorns, palisade). This shows a set of variants βρακ-/βραχ-/βραγχ- which are typical of Pre-Greek. The additional -α- in the first syllable of βάραγχος (bárankhos) may be due to purely phonetic epenthesis, but this type of variation, too, is frequent in Pre-Greek words as well.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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βρᾰ́γχος (bránkhosm (genitive βρᾰ́γχου); second declension

  1. hoarseness or sore throat causing it
  2. (pathology) kind of disease of swine, either anthrax or foot-and-mouth disease

Inflection

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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