ἐρύω

Ancient Greek

Etymology 1

Possibly Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewH- (“to tear, dig, burrow, gather”) (Latin rudens (“ship's sail”)), or related to ῥυμός (rhumós, “pole”), ῥυμουλκέω (rhumoulkéō, “to pull a towing rope”). Per LIV, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to hold back, ward off”), compare Proto-Germanic *warjaną (“to ward off; to thwart, to stop”).

Alternative forms

  • εἰρύω (eirúō) — Ionic
  • ϝερύω (werúō) — Doric

Pronunciation

 

Verb

ἐρύω • (erúō)

  1. (poetic) to draw, drag, pull
Conjugation
Derived terms

Further reading

  • “ἐρύω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  • ἐρύω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • “ἐρύω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Verb

*ἐρύω • (*erúō)

  1. Unattested form of ῥύομαι (rhúomai, “protect, save”), listed as the lemma form by some older dictionaries
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