ὑδρορ(ρ)όα

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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