Bryazon

Latin Etymology la Lewis & Short gives *la Bryazontis as the genitive, which suggests that this name derives from an Ancient Greek present active participle (compare la amethystizōn, la horizōn, la poppyzōn, etc.). *grc Βρυάζων would be a plausible candidate, being a substantivisation of grc βρυάζων βρῠάζων swelling”, “teeming, the present active participle of grc βρυάζω βρῠάζω I swell”, “I teem, since many rivers swell and teem; however, is the substantivisation attested? Pronunciation Bryazōn Proper noun Bryazōn/Bryazont<3> m a river in en Bithynia AD 77–79, Gaius Plinius Secundus, Naturalis Historia, book V, chapter xliii, § 148: sunt in ora amnes Aesius, Bryazon, Plataneus, Areus, Aesyros, Geudos, qui et Chrysorroas, promunturium in quo Megarice oppidum fuit. Declension Bryazōn/Bryazont<3> References Bryazon Bryazon 229/3 la hapax legomena la Rivers