ἔρα + ἵζω
Word
Validation
No
Word-form
ῥίζαν
Word-lemma
Transliteration (Word)
rhiza
English translation (word)
root
Transliteration (Etymon)
era + hizō
English translation (etymon)
earth + to sit
Source
idem
Ref.
Scholia in Oppianum, Hal. 1.456
Ed.
U.C. Bussemaker, Scholia et paraphrases in Nicandrum et Oppianum in Scholia in Theocritum (ed. F. Dübner), Paris: Didot, 1849
Quotation
Ῥίζαν· ῥίζα δι’ ἧς ῥέει τὸ ζῇν τοῖς φυτοῖς, ἢ παρὰ τὸ ἐν τῇ ἔρᾳ ἤως ἐν τῇ γῇ ἱζάνειν ἔριζα, καὶ ῥίζα ἀποβολῇ τοῦ ε
Translation (En)
Rhizan "root". Rhiza, the one through which life flows in plants, or from "to sit" (hizanein) in the earth (era), that is, the ground, *eriza, and rhiza by apocope of the /e/
Modern etymology
Older *ϝρίζα, cf. Myc. wi-ri-za. Cognate with Lat. rādīx, Engl. root, Welsh gwraidd "roots" (Beekes, EDG)
Persistence in Modern Greek
Yes
Entry By
Le Feuvre
Comment
Compositional etymology, combining two etymons otherwise assumed to be the etymons of ῥίζα in derivational etymologies (see ῥίζα / ἔρα, ῥίζα / ἵζω)