ἀρδάλια τοὺς πυθμένας τῶν κεραμίδων

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `irrigate, give drink' (Pi.).

Other forms: ἀ̄- foll. Hdn. Gr. 2, 109.

Compounds: νεο-αρδής `recently watered' (Φ 346).

Derivatives: ἀρδμός `drinking place' (Il.), ἀρδάλια τοὺς πυθμένας τῶν κεραμίδων, οὕς ἔνιοι γοργύρας καλοῦσιν H.

Origin: XX [etym. unknown] PGX [probably a word of Pre-Greek origin]

Etymology: No etymology. Kretschmer Glotta 3, 294f. explains the length from *ἀ-Ϝάρδω with prothetic vowel. Connection with ἐρράδαται (\< *ϜεϜράδαται), to Latv. werdīt `sprudeln', Lith. versmė̃ `spring', is prob. wrong, because the δ in ἐρράδαται (to ῥαίνω) is secondary (Schwyzer 672), and because of the meaning of the Baltic words. Fur. compares παρδακός (241) `humid' (very doubtful) and ἄρσεα λειμῶνες Η. (254; - σος being a pre-Greek suffix; attractive); he also assumes a (substr.) prothetic vowel comparing νεοαρδής (so did Kretschmer, but that was pre-laryngealistic). Neumann, Unters. 91, noted that several words for irrigation are pre-Greek ( γοργύρα, ἄνδηρα).

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Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `underground drain', (sts. used as prison) ( (Hdt. 3, 145. EM, H.); cf. ἀρδάλια τοὺς πυθμένας τῶν κεραμίδων, ους ἔνιοι γοργύρας καλοῦσιν H. which LSJ translates `waterpot, trough', Frisk `Unterlage der Dachziegel'. Cf. also κορκόδρυα ὑδρόρυα, perhaps to be read *κορκόρεα (Fur. 141, which fits the wordorder) ὑδρορ(ρ)όα.

Other forms: γεργυρα Alkm. 132; acc. unknown

Dialectal forms: κορχυρέα (Corc. II^a).

Derivatives: γοργύριον `subterranean chanel' LSJ Sup. (Sparta).

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

Etymology: On ο: ε (ο assimilated from ε?) Schwyzer 255. Not to γαργαρίζω with Cha. ("mais il faut admettre que le sens de conduite d'eau est originel"!) A typical Pre-Greek word (variations; ending - έα, Frisk 927, Chantr. Form. 91f.; suffix - υρ-, cf. on γέφυρα, Beekes, Pre-Greek); thus Neumann, Unters. 91, words for drainage etc. Orig. *garg-ūr- (with a \> o)? - Szemerényi's note ( Gnomon 43, 1971, 663 "Rhode's view that Γοργώ is a hypocoristic of γοργύρα is now confirmed by a Samian insription of the early 6th c. which lists a γοργύρη χρυσῆ; for the figure cf. B. Goldman, The Asiatic ancestry of the Greek Gorgon, Beryrus 14, 1962, 1-22." is not clear to me.

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