The Ancient Macedonian word ἀβροῦτες
Word ἀβροῦτες
IPA ǎbrouteς
Meaning eyebrows
See also Greek: ὀφρῦς ‘eyebrow’
Proto-Indo-European: *bʰrúhₓs ‘eyebrow’
Avestan: bruuat̰ ‘eyebrow’
Tocharian B: pärwāne ‘brows, eyebrows’
Tocharian A: pärwāṃ ‘eyebrows, brows’

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Hesychius

The Macedonian equivalent of ὀφρύες. Important word in terms of Macedonian phonology:

  1. Prothetic vowel α instead of ο
  2. β instead of φ
  3. diphthong ου instead of υ.

For commentary see: Sturz 1808, 34∙ Fick 1874 (KZ 22), 194 & 1906 (W. f. kl. Phil.), 1276-1277 ∙ Bezzenberger 1883 (BB 7), 64 ∙ Kretschmer 1896 (Einleitung), 287∙ Solmsen 1897 (KZ 24), 551∙ Hoffmann 1906, 9,16,51∙ von Βlumenthal 1930, 19∙ Μeillet (Aperçu d'une histoire de la langue grecque) 1975, 61∙ Pisani 1937, 25, υποσ. 3∙ Schwyzer 1939 (Griech. Grammatik), Kalleris 1954 [1988], 77-80, Degani 1984, 9∙ Masson 1995 (BSL 90.1), 233-239∙ Tzitzilis 2008∙ Méndez Dosuna 2012, Filos 2015, Haebler 2017.


Other words that might be of interest
ἀβαρκνᾷ ‘hair’, βίῥῥοξ ‘shaggy, hairy, dense’, κεβαλή ‘head’, κεβλή ‘head’, γαβαλά ‘brain, head’, λαυκανία ‘throat, neck, tongue’