νέβρειον

νέβρειος

of a fawn: masc /fem acc sg

νέβρειος

of a fawn: neut nom /voc /acc sg

νεφρ-ίον, τό, Dim. of νεφρός, POxy. 108i9 (ii/iii A.D.).

II = ἐλαφόβοσκον, Ps.-Dsc.3.69 (nisi leg. νέβρειον).

Grammatical information: m., f.

Meaning: `young of the deer, fawn' (Il.).

Compounds: As 1. member e.g. in νεβρο-τόκος `bringing forth fawns' (Nic.).

Derivatives: Several derivv, most poet. a. late 1. Subst.: νεβρίς, - ίδος f. `fawnskin' (E.) with νεβρίδ-ιον (Artem.) and νεβριζω `wear a fawnskin' (D. 18, 259, beside κρατηρίζω `drink a bowl', of the participants of a Dionysosfeast), νεβρισμός `wearing νεβρίς' (gramm.); νεβρῆ f. `id.' (Orph.); νεβρίας m. name of a shark ( γαλεός, Arist.; because of the colour, cf. Thompson Fishes s.v.), ἔλαφος νεβρίας H. s. λάδας; νέβρακες οἱ ἄρρενες νεοττοὶ τῶν ἀλεκτρυόνων H. (cf. σκύλαξ, πόρταξ and Chantraine Form. 379); νεβρίτης λίθος (Orph.), - ῖτις (Plin.), because of the colour (Redard 58). -- 2. Adj.: νέβρινος (S.), νέβρειος (Call., APl.) `of a fawn', νέβρειον name of the Pastinaca sativa (Ps.-Dsc.; Strömberg Wortstudien 50); νεβρώδης `fawnlike' (AP). -- 3. Verb: νεβρόομαι `be changed into a fawn' (Nonn.).

Origin: XX [etym. unknown]

Etymology: With νεβρός agrees exactly Arm. nerk, -oy `colour', if from IE *( s)negʷro-. It is derived from nerk-anem `colour', which has the form of a primary verb (aor. nerk-i). But the word for `deer' has nothing to do with it. Deer and hind are often called after their colour, e.g. πρόξ, προκάς `deer- or roe-like animal' to περκνός `speckled', πρεκνόν ποικιλόχροον ἔλαφον H. Also Lat. niger `black' has been compared; on the meaning cf. a.o. περκνός also `darkspotted, blackish' and Porzig Gliederung 167 (doubts in W.-Hofmann s.v.). But the meaning has nothing to do with `deer'. -- Diff. on nerk (backformation from primary nerkanem with a very complicated etymology) Belardi Ric. ling. 1, 147 f.; s. also Pagliaro Rend. Acc. Linc. 8: 16, 2 n. 6.

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