Re[2]: [tied] fear ( it was hades)

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 20837
Date: 2003-04-07

At 12:33:13 AM on Monday, April 7, 2003, alex_lycos wrote:

> Daniel J. Milton wrote:

>> My Buck's "Synonyms" has:
>> Rum. 'fricã' fr. Grk. 'phrike' "shivering, shuddering",
>> esp. with fear. 'Phrisso' "be rough, bristle up, ripple,
>> shiver."

> The question is , what speaks for the word "phrike" that
> this one is a New Greek word and not a borrowed one from
> Albanian or Romanian? Which are the arguments for being
> indeed a Greek word?

It's a classical Greek word meaning 'the ruffling or ripple
on a smooth sea; a shuddering, shivering, chill; shivering
fear, shuddering'.

Brian