βρῠχιος

βρῠ́χιος

Grammatical information: adj.

Meaning: `deep (under water)' (A.).

Derivatives: ὑπόβρυχα `under water', orig. adj. in acc. sg. (ε 319, Hdt. 7, 130; s. Bechtel Lex. s. v.), later adv. (Arat.); ὑποβρύχιος (h. Hom. 33, 12); περιβρύχιος `engulfing' (S.). Sec. βρύχα `depth of the sea' (Opp. H. 2, 588).

Origin: XX [etym. unknown]

Etymology: One would start from a noun *βρύξ, βρυχός `water, depth (of the sea)'; on the formation of ὑπόβρυχα, ὑποβρύχιος s. Schwyzer-Debrunner 532. Connection with βρέχω is phonetically impossible (and the meaning is different too). There seems to have been a connection by popular etymology with βρυχάομαι.

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