- ῥίον
- ῥίονGrammatical information: n.Meaning: `mountain peak, foothills' (Hom.); also as PlN (a.o. in Achaia; Th.).Dialectal forms: Myc. rijo PlN.Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]Etymology: In Greek isolated; no certain etymology. -- Can as *Ϝρίον belong to Thrac. βρία `πόλις, τεῖχος', Toch. A ri, B riye `town'; but this does not agree well with `mountain(top'; s. lit. on βρία. Not better with WP. 1, 267 (after Bezzenberger and Froehde) to Germ., e.g. OS wrisil `giant' or with Bugge BB 3, 112 (after Fick) to Skt. várṣman- n. `height', Lat. verrūca, OCS vrьchъ, Russ. verch, Lith. viršùs `highest top, summit'; the last phonetically doubtful, cf. Schwyzer 352. After Heubeck Orbis 13,266f. (agreeing Risch Mus. Helv. 22, 194 n. 4) from *srii̯om to Hitt. še-(e)-ir `above'. -- WP. l.c. w. further lit., Pok. 1152; also W.-Hofmann s. ver-rūca. On the phonetics also Petersen Lang. 14, 57 (from *u̯re-om with e \> i before s [?]). -- The word might be Pre-Greek.Page in Frisk: 2,658
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.