Ρόγχ

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `to snore, to snort' (A., E., com., Arist. [v. l.]).

Other forms: ῥέγχω (Hp., Arist., Herod., hell. a. late). Note ῥεγχ-, ῥοχμ-, ῥωχμ-.

Compounds: Rarely w. ἀπο-, ὑπο-, παρα-.

Derivatives: ῥέγκ-ος (- χ-) n. `snore' with - ώδης `snore-like', ῥέγξις f. `id.' (Hp.). -- Beside it some iterative-intensive formations with ο-voc.: ῥογκιῆν ῥέγκειν. Έπίχαρμος H. (after the verbs of disease in - ιάω); ῥογχάζειν H. as explanation of ῥυγχιάζειν with ῥογχ-ασμός = ῥέγχος (Gal.), - αστής = nasator (gloss.); ῥογχ-αλίζω `to snore' (gloss.; after γαργαλίζω a.o.); also ῥόγχος (Cael. Aur.), ῥωχμός = ῥέγχος (Erot.); to this ῥωγμός, ῥοχμός, ῥογμός `to hiss' (late medic.); ῥώχω `to hiss, to chatter one's teeth' (Sor., H.).

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]

Etymology: Onomatop. word, that may have a close agreement in Celtis, in OIr. srennim `snort' \< * srenk-nā-mi, with MIr. srēimm `snoring' \< *srenk-s-mn̥ (would be Gr. *ῥέγχμα). -- WP. 2, 705, Pok. 1002; on it Meid IF 65, 39; on the formation cf. Schwyzer 692. Cf. ῥύγχος. -- The variation may point to a Pre-Greek word.

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