- ὄβρυζα
- ὄβρυζαGrammatical information: f.Meaning: `fire test of gold' (Just. Edict. 11).Derivatives: ὀβρυζιακός and ὄβρυζος `having come through a fire test, pure', of gold (pap. IV--VIp, sch.).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: LW [loanword]; by Benveniste Rev. de phil. 79, 122 ff. (s. also Neumann Heth. u. luw. Sprachgut 20) compared with Hitt. ḫuprušḫi name of a pot, as the word originally indicated the pot in which the gold was tested. S. also Benveniste Hitt. et i.-eur. 126ff. -- Lat. LW [loanword] obrussa (since Cic.), later obryza, -iacus (since IV p); s. W.-Hofmann s.v. and Leumann Mél. Marouzeau (1948) 382 and Die Sprache 1, 206 (Kl. Schriften 165 a. 172). The word may well be Pre-Greek.Page in Frisk: 2,436
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.