βλωθρός

• γλωθρός (glōthrós)

Conventionally connected with Sanskrit मूर्धन् (mūrdhan, “head, top”) and Old English molda (“upper part of the head, crown”) through the reconstructed form *μλωθρός (*mlōthrós). However, this does not explain the variation, which points to Proto-Hellenic *gʷ-: likewise with Frisk’s suggested connections μέλαθρον (mélathron, “ridgepole”) or βλαστάνω (blastánō, “to sprout, grow”). According to Beekes, the variant rather suggests a Pre-Greek origin. On the other hand, linguists Romain Garnier and Benoît Sagot posit that the term may derive from Proto-Indo-European *mḷh₃-dʰ-r-ó-, which they suggest may belong to the root *melh₃- (“to come”).

βλωθρός • (blōthrós) m (feminine βλωθρᾱ́, neuter βλωθρόν); first/second declension

1. (of trees) high, tall, elongated

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• “βλωθρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “βλωθρός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• βλωθρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βλωθρός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• βλωθρός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “βλωθρός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 223
• Romain Garnier; Benoît Sagot (26 September 2017), “A shared substrate between Greek and Italic”, in Indogermanische Forschungen‎^[1], volume 122, number 1, →DOI, page 53