ῥηνο-φορεύς

Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `sheep, lamb'(A.R.).

Other forms: acc. ῥῆνα (Nic.), dat. pl. ῥήνεσσι (A. R.).

Compounds: As 2. member a.o. in πολύ-ρρην-ες nom. pl. (Ι 154 = 296), thematic. enlarged πολύ-ρρην-ο-ς nom. sg. (λ 257) `rich in sheep'; ὑπό-ρρην-ο-ν acc. sg. (Κ 216) `having a lamb under one, suckling'. As 1. member in ῥηνο-φορεύς m. `bearer of sheep fleece' (AP; Bosshardt 29); from it ῥηνικός `from the sheep', ῥῆνιξ, - ικος f. `sheep fleece' (Hp.).

Derivatives: Several H.-glosses: ῥήνεα πρόβατα (cf. κτήνεα); ῥᾶνα ἄρνα (Elean?), ῥύεινα ἄρνα. Κύπριοι (for Ϝρην-?); prob. also τρανόν (for *Ϝρ-) ἑξαμηνιαῖον πρόβατον (but the α then remains unexplained). -- Here perh the islandname `Ρήνεια (near Delos).

Origin: GR [a formation built with Greek elements]

Etymology: The above forms differ only in ablaut from ἀρήν (s.v.) \< Ϝαρήν; as basis one assumes best *u̯rēn-, which may agree with Lat. rēnō `garment of reindeer(?)-skin with the Germans' (Germ. LW [loanword].; s. W.-Hofmann s.v.), but s. Benvenist, Rev. Ph. 38(1964)20-12. The hell. ep. ῥήνεσσι and ῥῆνα may well have been built after πολύ-ρρην and oher compp., but this explanation fits neither for Hippocrat. ῥηνικός, ῥῆνιξ nor for the glosses of Hesychius; further Sommer Nominalkomp. 66 ff., Ruijgh L'élém. ach. 161 (also Schwyzer 568).

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