The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*h₃bʰrúHs
- Proto-Hellenic · derived from*opʰrū́s
- Ancient Greek · derived fromὀφρῡ́ς“eyebrow”
- translingual · borrowed fromOphrys
- English todayophrys
Borrowed from translingual Ophrys, from Ancient Greek ὀφρῡ́ς (ophrū́s, “eyebrow”); further from Proto-Hellenic *opʰrū́s and Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰrúHs. Doublet of bree and brow.
Words from the same roots
Proto-Indo-European*h₃bʰrúHs all →
browbrae
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.