- θρῆνος
- θρῆνοςGrammatical information: m.Meaning: `dirge, lament, lamentation' (IE, Ω 721; on the meaning Diehl RhM 89, 90 a. 112).Compounds: Compp. e. g. θρην-ῳδός `who sings a lament' (Alciphr.) with -έω, -ία (E., Plu.), ἔν-θρηνος `full of lament' (Pap.).Derivatives: θρηνώδης `like a lament' (Pl.), θρήνωμα = θρῆνος (pap. Ia; -ωμα only enlarging, Chantraine Formation 186f.). Denomin. verb θρηνέω, aor. θρηνῆσαι, also with prefix, e. g. ἐπι-, κατα-, `start a lament, lament, wail for' (Ω 722) with several derivv.: θρήνημα `lament' (E.), θρηνη-τής, -ητήρ (A.; cf. Benveniste Noms d'agent 42) `lamentation', also θρηνήτωρ (Man.); θρηνητικός (Arist.); ἐπιθρήν-ησις (Plu.).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: To θρῆνος in the first place ablauting θρώναξ κηφήν. Λάκωνες H. and reduplicated τενθρήνη `hornet' (cf. also on ἀνθρηδών; see Kuiper Μνήμης χάριν 1, 221f.). Also in other languages we find comparablewords denoting sounds: Skt. dhráṇati `sounds' (gramm.) and the Germanic word for `Drohne', e. g. OS dreno, with which cf. also Goth. drunjus `sound', NGerm. drönen `drōhnen' a. o., Lat. drēnsō, -āre the sound of swans (from Gaulic); in all these cases we have to assume an onomatopoetic elementary relation rather than a genetic connection. (Not here Arm. dṙnč̣im `blow the horn' (Mladenov Mélanges Pedersen 95ff.). Cf. with different anlaut Lith. trinkėti ! `drone'; uncertain Toch. A träṅk- `speak'. - Pok. 255f., W.-Hofmann s. drēnsō, Mayrhofer s. dhráṇati. (Hardly to θρέομαι, θόρυβος, θρῦλος.) - We have prob. a Pre-Greek word.Page in Frisk: 1,681-682
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.