ὄρτυξ: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m. (f. Lyc. 401)<br />Meaning: [[quail]], [[Coturnix vulgaris]] (Epich., IA.); also as a plant-name = <b class="b3">στελέφουρος</b>, <b class="b2">Plantago Lagopus</b> (Thphr.), cf. Strömberg Theophrastea 50.<br />Other forms: H. <b class="b3">γόρτυξ</b>, i.e. <b class="b3">Ϝόρτυξ</b>), <b class="b3">-υγος</b> (<b class="b3">-υκος</b> Philem. 245).<br />Compounds: As 1. member a.o. in <b class="b3">ὀρτυγο-μήτρα</b> f. "quail-mother", [[corncrake]], [[Rallux crex]] (Cratin., Arist., LXX), after H. = <b class="b3">ὄρτυξ ὑπερμεγέθης</b>; s. Thompson Birds s.v., also Strömberg Wortstud. 23; as 2. member in <b class="b3">φιλ-όρτυξ</b> <b class="b2">quail-loving</b> (Pl. [[Ly]]. 212d).<br />Derivatives: Dimin. <b class="b3">ὀρτύγιον</b> n. (com.); <b class="b3">Όρτυγία</b>, <b class="b3">-ίη</b> f. old name of the island Delos and other islands (Od., Str.; Tréheux BCH 70, 560ff.), after that surname of Artemis (S.); patron. <b class="b3">Όρτυγίων</b> (Euboea).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [1180] <b class="b2">*u̯ort-</b> [[quail]]; PGX [probably a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Formed like the rare birdnames <b class="b3">ἴβυξ</b>, <b class="b3">βαῖβυξ</b>; cf. also <b class="b3">κόκκυξ</b>, <b class="b3">πτέρυξ</b> a.o. (Chantraine Form. 397, Schwyzer 498). With <b class="b3">Ϝόρτυξ</b> agrees except the ending Skt. (Ved.) <b class="b2">vártikā</b> f., later attested as <b class="b2">vartaka-</b> m. [[quail]] with the very productive <b class="b2">ikā-</b> and <b class="b2">aka-</b>suffixes. Note also MPers. [[vartak]] <b class="b2">id.</b>. The orig. form of the word cannot be reconstructed. WP. 1, 316 w. further lit., Specht Ursprung 139, 204 a. 214, Dehò Ist. Lomb. 91, 358. - Furnée 122 points out that both the suffix and the variation <b class="b3">κ</b>\/<b class="b3">γ</b> points to a loan.