σμάραγδος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: f. (m.)<br />Meaning: [[emerald]] (Hdt., Pl. etc.).<br />Other forms: Also [[μάραγδος]] (Men., hell. inscr.), also [[ζμάραγδος]], <b class="b3">-ιον</b> (inscr., pap.).<br />Compounds: <b class="b3">σμαραγδο-χαίτης</b> <b class="b2">with emerald-green hair</b> (Tim. Pers.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">σμαράγδ-ιον</b> n. (M. Ant.), <b class="b3">-ίτης</b> m. ([[λίθος]]; hell., Plin.); <b class="b3">-ινος</b> <b class="b2">of S., s.-green</b> (pap. a. o.), <b class="b3">-ειος</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Hld.), <b class="b3">-ώδης</b> <b class="b2">s.-like</b> (sch.); <b class="b3">-ίζω</b> <b class="b2">to be s.-green</b> (D. S., Dsc.).<br />Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Orient.<br />Etymology: Identical with Skt. [[marakatam]] (also [[maraktam]]) n. and Accad. [[barraqtu]], Hebr. [[bāræqæt]] <b class="b2">id.</b>. The orig. source may be Semit. (to [[brq]] [[gleam]], [[flicker]]). On Gr. <b class="b3">σμ-</b> cf. [[Σμέρδις]]: OP Bardiya a. o. (Schwyzer 311); also [[σμαραγέω]] may have been of unfluence. The later attested [[μάραγδος]] from Ind.? From Greek Lat. [[smaragdus]] and Pers. Arab. [[zumurrud]], from where Osman. [[zümrüd]] > Russ. <b class="b2">izumrúd</b>. -- Mayrhofer Sprache 7, 187 f. w. lit., also KEWA. s. v.; older lit. in Lewy Fremdw. 57.