βρίζα

A. rye, Secale cereale, in Thrace and Macedonia, Gal. 6.514. (Probably a Thracian word, cognate with Lith. rugiai 'rye', Engl. rye, etc.)

II. Aeol. for ῥίζα, A.D. Adv. 157.20, Greg.Cor.p.576 S.