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|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: 1. <b class="b2">fine flour, flour dust</b> (Ar. Nu. 262, Apollon. Med.), 2. <b class="b2">shrewd person, crafty person</b> (Ar. Nu. 260).<br />Compounds: Compp. : 1. <b class="b3">δυσ-παίπαλος</b> adjunct of <b class="b3">βῆσσα</b> (Archil.), <b class="b3">κύματα</b> (B.), <b class="b3">Ὄθρυς</b> (Nic.) a.o.; 2. <b class="b3">δυσοδο-παίπαλα</b> n. pl. (A. Eu. 387, reading uncertain; after sch. <b class="b3">δυσπαράβατα καὶ τραχέα</b>; 3. <b class="b3">πολυ-παίπαλος</b>, of <b class="b3">Φοίνικες</b> (ο 419), of <b class="b3">αἰθήρ</b> (Call. Fr. [[anon]]. 225).<br />Derivatives: Beside it several formally close, but semantically doubtful fomations. Adj. 1. <b class="b3">παιπαλ-όεις</b> of islands, mountains, roads (ep. Il.); 2. <b class="b3">-ιμος</b> [[artful]], [[shrewd]] (Theognost., sch.); 3. <b class="b3">-ώδης</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (EM, Suid.); 4. <b class="b3">-εος</b> of <b class="b3">πιπώ</b> [[woodpecker]] (Antim.), meaning unknown. Verbs. 1. <b class="b3">παιπαλᾶν περισκοπεῖν</b>, <b class="b3">ἐρευνᾶν</b> H., with formally <b class="b3">παιπάλημα</b> n. (Ar., Aeschin.) = 2. <b class="b3">παιπάλη</b>; prob just enlargement of it; 2. <b class="b3">παιπάλλειν σείειν</b> H.; 3. <b class="b3">παιπαλώσσω τὸ παίζω καὶ τὸ παροινῶ</b> (Theognost.). <b class="b3">παίπαλά τε κρημνούς τε</b> (Call. Dian. 194), prob. backformation.<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: The adj. <b class="b3">παιπαλόεις</b>, of which the orig. meaning was apparently early forgotten and which was used by the ep. poets as epith. ornans without specific meaning, is mostly explained as <b class="b3">τραχύς</b>, <b class="b3">σκολιώδης</b>', i.e. [[raw]], [[steep]] or [[twisted]]; so <b class="b3">δυσ-παίπαλος</b> <b class="b2">with dangerous παίπαλα</b>. Starting from [[winding]] Fick KZ 44, 148 f. (agreeing Bechtel Lex. s.v.) wanted to connect a supposed root <b class="b2">pele-</b> [[wind]] [impossible root form], also [[fold]]; <b class="b3">παιπαλόεις</b> thus <b class="b2">rich in turns or folds</b> (cf. <b class="b3">πολύ-πτυχος</b>), <b class="b3">πολυ-παίπαλος</b> = <b class="b3">πολύ-τροπος</b> (in antiquity). Positing a root <b class="b2">pele-</b> meaning [[turn]] however, is based on a wrong analysis of <b class="b3">πόλος</b>, <b class="b3">πάλιν</b> (s. rather <b class="b3">πέλομαι</b>); so only the meaning [[fold]] remains (s. <b class="b3">ἁπλόος</b>). Similarly Worms Herm. 81, 31 n. 2: prop. [[geschwungen]], [[gewunden]], to <b class="b3">πάλλω</b>, from where <b class="b2">zackig, sich schlangelnd, zerklüftet</b>(?). With this interpretation of <b class="b3">παιπαλόεις</b> one separates <b class="b3">παιπάλη</b> from it and connects it as a separate word to <b class="b3">πάλη</b> [[flour]] (s.v.) and <b class="b3">πόλτος</b> etc. -- Others connect <b class="b3">παιπαλόεις</b> as [[floury]], [[dusty]] (first of roads) with <b class="b3">παιπάλη</b>; s. Leumann Hom. Wörter 236 ff. with extensive argumentation and rich lit. He considers <b class="b3">παιπάλη</b> <b class="b2">subtle talker</b> not as metapher of <b class="b3">παιπάλη</b> <b class="b2">fine flour</b> but explains it from <b class="b3">πολυ-παίπαλος</b>. -- Still diff. Palmer Glotta 27, 134 ff. (by Leumann rightly rejected). The origin of <b class="b3">παιπάλη</b> L. sees in <b class="b3">παιπάλλειν</b> = <b class="b3">σείειν</b> ('shake' = <b class="b2">sieve flour</b>); also <b class="b3">πάλη</b> [[flour]] from <b class="b3">πάλλω</b>. Cf. <b class="b3">πασπάλη</b>. -- On the reduplication cf. Skoda, Redoublement 33 etc.

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