- βριτύ
- βριτύGrammatical information: adj.Meaning: γλυκύ. Κρῆτες H.Compounds: Βριτό-μαρτις surname of Artemis on Crete (inscr., Str.), also a goddess or nymphe on Crete (Dreros) (Call. Dian. 190); Βριτομάρτια n. pl. feast on Delos (inscr.). Also Βριτόμαρπις, -μάρπεια (Crete). Acc. to Marinatos Άρχ. Δελτ. 9, 79ff. to Μάρπησσα, name of a divinity in Aetolia. Wahrmann. Glotta 19, 170 thinks -μαρπις is the original form (but that Βριτόμαρτις is due to dissimilation is improbable); thus Guarducci, Inscr. Cr. 1, 35. Also Βρυτόμαρτις (Wahrmann l.c.). - Acc. to Solin. 11, 8 = `dulcis virgo', which seems confirmed by the gloss. Latte thinks that the gloss may have been invented secondarily to explain the name, but R. A. Brown. Pre-Greek Speech on Crete, 1985, 41 rightly objects that the υ-stem is not accounted for in this way. IE etymologies are useless. For π\/τ Fur. 166 compares Πανοπεύς \/ Φανοτεύς, see also his p. 389; a variation ι\/υ is known from Pre-Greek.Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: Unknown. - Ιμπροβαβλε Magnien (Glotta 21, 178).Page in Frisk: 1,269
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.
