ῥέθος

Etymology
Since the meaning "face, countenance", given as Aeolic by grammarians, is certain, we have to depart from this when explaining the word. Both an older Epic meaning "mouth" and "figure, body" seems possible (compare 🇨🇬 and ). An original meaning "nostril(s)" fits well, and the transition to "face, body" is unproblematic. The word has. The lack of the ϝ- in Aeolic makes a connection with 🇨🇬 difficult. Fraenkel's suggestion to connect and  is neither morphologically nor semantically convincing.

Noun

 * 1)  limb, member
 * 2)  face, countenance
 * 1)  face, countenance