ἔρρω

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

  • ϝέρρω (wérrhō)

Etymology

Related to ἐρύω (erúō, “drag”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to drag on the ground”). Compare Hittite [Term?] (/warš-/, “pluck, reap”), Albanian zvarrë (“drag on the ground”), Latin verro (“to drag, to sweep”), Old Norse vǫrr (“stroke”), Latvian vârsms (“heap of corn, grain”).[1]

Beekes instead supports a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn”) via an extension *wert-ye-.

Pronunciation

 

Verb

ἔρρω • (érrhō)

  1. I go slowly, I limp
  2. I wander
  3. I go or come to harm, I disappear
    (vulgar, usually imperative) Go to hell, perish, begone.

Inflection

Derived terms

  • ἀνέρρω (anérrhō)
  • ἀπέρρω (apérrhō)
  • εἰσέρρω (eisérrhō)
  • ἐξέρρω (exérrhō)
  • περιέρρω (periérrhō)

References

  • “ἔρρω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ἔρρω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “ἔρρω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • ἔρρω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • ἔρρω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  1. “Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch”, J. Pokorny, 1959, Bern : Francke
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