βάτραχος

Etymology
Seemingly of croaking, but this imitation has probably taken place not in Greek, but that Greek has borrowed from  or ; compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, considering that in the dialect of  the frog is matching the Semitic with  – unless of course one must find that Semitic and Greek have borrowed from an unknown third.

Concerning the wide range of dialectal variation, Beekes explains that much may be due to folk etymology or taboo, combined with other phonetic alterations such as vowel displacement and even prenasalization, which indicate substrate origin: “A priori, a local (i.e. Pre-Greek) form is to be expected for all of these forms; the variation α/ο points to this.” The suffix is also found in names of other animals.

An older hypothesis (cf. ) links 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, all from a hypothetical, supposing metathesis (cf. ) and an original *dʰ whence perhaps the /tʰ/ of the Ionic variant , but this is phonetically very difficult. Moreover, as Beekes explains, the form with /t/ is original, whereas Ionic frequently displaces aspiration in this way.

Noun

 * 1) frog
 * 2) * Aristophanes, Frogs, 207.
 * "grc"

- βατράχων κύκνων θαυμαστά.


 * 1) anglerfish

Descendants

 * Translingual: ,
 * Translingual: ,

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) frog