- ῥώομαι
- ῥώομαιGrammatical information: v.Meaning: `to move intensively or with effort, to brisk about, to dance' (Il.).Other forms: almost only in 3. pl. ipf. a. aor. ῥώοντο, ἐρρώοντο, ἐρρώσαντο (ep. Il.), further, also ep., late a. rare ῥώετο (Nic.), ῥώονθ' (= -ται, D. P.), ῥώσονται (Call.), ἐπίρρωσαι (AP).Compounds: Often w. ἐπι- (rare a. late ἀνα-, συν-).Origin: XX [etym. unknown]Etymology: The evaluation of the above frozen forms depends on whether the imperfect- or the aorist was prior (cf. Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 365). In the last case the verb is primary (and to be connected with ῥῶσαι, ἔρρωμαι, ῥώννυμι?), in the first case however a lengthened deverhative, which formally better than semantically agrees with ῥέω (Schwyzer 349 a. 722); cf. the considerations on πλώω -- On ῥωσκομένως s. ῥώννυμι.Page in Frisk: 2,668
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.