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Quotation
Βύρσα· παρὰ τὸ δείρω, τὸ ἐκδέρω, ὁ μέλλων Αἰολικῶς δέρσω· καὶ δέρσα καὶ βύρσα, ἡ ἐκδερομένη τῷ σώματι. ἢ παρὰ τὸ ῥύω ῥύσα καὶ πλεονασμῷ τοῦ β καὶ καθ’ ὑπέρθεσιν βύρσα, ἡ περιρρεομένη τῷ ἱδρῶτι. οὕτως Ὦρος
Translation (En)
Bursa "leather bag": from derō "to skin", the Aeolic future of which is *dersō, then *dersa and bursa, that which is skinned from the body. Or from rhuō "to flow", *rhusa, and by addition of /b/ and metathesis, bursa, the one around which sweat flows (perirreomenē). This is what Orus says
Parallels
Etym. Magnum, Kallierges, p. 217 (Βύρσα: Παρὰ τὸ δείρω, τὸ ἐκδέρω, ὁ μέλλων Αἰολικῶς, δέρσω· καὶ δέρσα, καὶ βύρσα, ἡ ἐκδερομένη τῷ σώματι. Ἢ παρὰ τὸ ῥύω, ῥύσα· καὶ πλεονασμῷ τοῦ β, βύρσα, καθ’ ὑπερβιβασμὸν, ἡ περιρρεομένη τῷ ἱδρῶτι); Etym. Symeonis, vol. 1, p. 516 (Βύρσα: Παρὰ τὸ δείρω, τὸ ἐκδέρω, ὁ μέλλων Αἰολικῶς, δέρσω· καὶ δέρσα, καὶ βύρσα, ἡ ἐκδερομένη τῷ σώματι. Ἢ παρὰ τὸ ῥύω, ῥύσα καὶ βύρσα, ἡ περιρρεομένη τῷ ἱδρῶτι); Ps.-Zonaras, Lexicon, beta, p. 411 (Βύρσα. παρὰ τὸ δέρω τὸ ἐκδέρω, ὁ μέλλων αἰολικῶς δέρσω, καὶ δέρση, ἡ βύρσα ἡ ἐκδερομένη τοῦ σώματος. [ἢ παρὰ τὸ ῥύω, ῥύσα, ἡ περιῤῥεομένη τῷ ἱδρῶτι.])
Comment
Derivational etymology, guided only by meaning (leather comes from the skinned hide) and involving severe formal changes. The starting point is, as often, the future form of the verb, which provides the /s/. Here, since the future in koine Greek is δερῶ, the form *δέρσω is assumed to be Aeolic. The next step involves a change of the two initial phonemes into something else.