σφυρόν: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: [[ankle]], [[foot-joint]] (Il.), metaph. [[the lower part of a mountain]] (Pi., Theoc. a.o.).<br />Compounds: Compp., e.g. <b class="b3">τανύ-σφυρος</b> [[with slender ankles]] (h. Cer., Hes.); <b class="b3">ἐπι-σφύρ-ια</b> n. pl. [[ankle-buckles]] (Il.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">σφυρόομαι</b> <b class="b2">to tie ones ankle-buckles, to put on one's laced boots</b> (Carm. Pop. 7) with <b class="b3">-ωτήρ</b>, <b class="b3">-ῆρος</b> m. [[shoe-strap]] (LXX; cf. lit. on <b class="b3">σφαιρωτήρ</b>).<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Zero grade verbal noun to <b class="b3">σπαίρω</b> [impossible because of <b class="b3">σφ-</b>], Skt. <b class="b2">sphuráti</b> etc., prob. inherited and identical with OHG [[spuri-halz]] [[limping]] (prop. *"knuckle-lame"?) except for the final vowel. To this from Germ. also OHG [[spor]] n. [[foot-mark]], [[sporo]] [[spur]] etc.; s. <b class="b3">σπαίρω</b> w. lit. The by-form <b class="b3">σφυδρά</b> pl. (Act. Ap. 3, 7, pap. IIIp, H., gloss.) is folketymol. (after <b class="b3">σφόδρα</b>, <b class="b3">-ός</b> or <b class="b3">σφυδῶν</b>?; no decision gives Schwyzer 239 Zus. 2). -- The IE etym. cannot explain inital <b class="b3">σφ-</b> and must be given up.