- ἔρρω
- ἔρρωGrammatical information: v.Meaning: `go (away), go to one's own harm, go to ruin', mostly perfective `be away, be lost' (Il.); (Schwyzer-Debrunner 274), mostly with unpleasant side-meaning of unhappiness, disaster, mostly in ipv. and imperatival expressions,Other forms: Locr. ipv. Ϝερρέτω, El. inf. (in imperat. function) Ϝάρρεν; non-present- forms are rare: fut. ἐρρήσω (h. Merc. 259, Com.), aor. ἤρρησα (Com.), perf. εἰσ-ήρρηκα (Ar. Th. 1075)Compounds: also with prefix ἀν-, ἀπ-, εἰσ-, ἐξ-, περι-.Origin: XX [etym. unknown]Etymology: Expressive word of the common lenguage and the poetic language, unknown to prose. Unexplained. Derivation from *Ϝέρσι̯ω and connection with Lat. verrō `sweep', OCS vrъchǫ, vrěšti `thresh' fails, apart from the semantic differences, from the general Greek, clearly expressive geminate -ρρ-. Old interjection?Page in Frisk: 1,566
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.