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Good call on thorpe ~ Dorf, Dr Bill. The ops in hydropsy is the same as that in Odyssey's overseer, Cyclops, and is related to the eye, but in Greek it also meant 'face'. All from PIE *okw- 'to see' as are L occulus, German Auge, usw. Eyes and the face: there's also German Gesicht (lit. 'seen') and French visage.
http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE360.html
OTOH, (o)edema is from the Gk oidema 'swelling' < oidein 'to swell', whence also Oedipus of the swollen feet, and from the same root *oid- 'to swell' comes Eng oat, German Eiter(beule) 'abcess, blain, boil, furuncle', and Sanskrit indra 'Indra'.
Dear jheem: I don't quite get connection between
"-ops = eye " and edema.
dropsy == edema that's all
Dear jheem: now I get it. Ops- = face (not just eye)
Perhaps cropsy might have been first noticeable in face.
(If you didn't notice it in big belly,etc)
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