Ὠκεανός

Etymology
. Generally acknowledged to be a non-Indo-European loan. A possible relationship with the root ʕ-w-g "to be crooked, tortuous" has been discussed. Another possibility includes a derivation from non-attested 🇨🇬 (Water of the Land and Heaven).

Beekes suggests a *ūkʲān-. Michael Janda has reminded the scientific community of an earlier comparison with the Vedic dragon Vṛtra's attribute āśáyāna- “lying on [the waters]”, claiming it to be an exact phonetical transposition of the Greek word, both stemming from, related to.

Proper noun

 * , a Greek water god usually said to be a Titan, one of the sons of Uranus and Gaia.
 * 1) The great freshwater river thought to encompass the world.
 * 2) The great saline outer sea (the Atlantic), as opposed to the Mediterranean.