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|etymtx=Grammatical information: m., f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">deer, deer-cow</b> (Il.). (Cf. Schwyzer-Debrunner 31.)<br />Compounds: Note <b class="b3">ἐλαφη-βόλος</b> (with rhythmically preferable <b class="b3">-η-</b> for <b class="b3">-ο-</b>, Schwyzer 438f. m. Lit.) <b class="b2">killing deer</b> (Σ 319 a. o.) with <b class="b3">ἐλαφηβολία</b> <b class="b2">deer-hunt</b> (S.), <b class="b3">ἐλαφηβόλια</b> (sc. <b class="b3">ἱερά</b>) n. pl. name of a Artemis feast (Phocis), from where the month name <b class="b3">Ἐλαφηβολιών</b> (treaty in Th. 4, 118). As 2. member in determinative compp., <b class="b3">τραγ-έλαφος</b> <b class="b2">buck-deer</b> (Ar., Pl.; cf. Risch IF 59, 56), <b class="b3">ἱππ-</b>, <b class="b3">ὀν-</b>, <b class="b3">ταυρ-έλαφος</b> (Arist.).<br />Derivatives: Diminut. <b class="b3">ἐλάφιον</b> (Ar. Th. 1172), <b class="b3">ἐλαφίνης</b> <b class="b2">young deer, deer-calf</b> (Aq., H.; s. Chantr. Form. 203); <b class="b3">ἐλαφῆ</b> <b class="b2">deer-skin</b> (Poll.); <b class="b3">ἐλαφίαι οἱ τῶν ἐλάφων ἀστράγαλοι</b> H.; <b class="b3">ἐλαφίς</b> name of a waterbird (Dionys. Av. 2, 11); s. Thompson Birds s. v.; <b class="b3">ἐλάφειος</b> <b class="b2">of a deer</b> (X., Arist.); <b class="b3">ἐλάφειον</b> and <b class="b3">ἐλαφικόν</b> as plant names (Ps.-Dsc.), s. Strömberg Pflanzennamen 118, Wortstudien 50. - On [[Elaphe]] as name of a kind of snake and NGr. dialectforms <b class="b3">λαφιάτης</b> etc. s. Georgakas <b class="b3">Μνήμης χάριν</b> 1, 119f., 124f.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [303] <b class="b2">*h₁el-en-</b> [[deer]]<br />Etymology: The side-form <b class="b3">ἐλλός</b> <b class="b2">deer-calf</b> (τ 228, Ant. Lib. 28, 3), which (with Aeolic development?) can stay for <b class="b3">*ἐλ-νος</b> (Lejeune Traité de phonétique 132, Schwyzer 284), can be connected with a widespraed name for the deer: Arm. [[eɫn]], gen. [[eɫin]], Lith. <b class="b2">élnis</b>, OCS [[jelenь]], Celt., e. g. Welsh. [[elain]], OWelsh month name [[Elembiu]] (: <b class="b3">Ἐλαφηβολιών</b>?, s. Kořínek below); note also <b class="b3">ἔνελος νεβρός</b> H. (from <b class="b2">*elen-</b> ?); the <b class="b2">n-</b>stem also in <b class="b3">ἔλαφος</b> < <b class="b2">*eln̥-bho-s</b> (cf. Skt. <b class="b2">vŕ̥ṣan-</b> : <b class="b2">vr̥ṣa-bhá-</b> and Schwyzer 495, Chantraine 263). Unclear Toch. A [[yäl]] [[antilope]], [[gazelle]]. On Goth. etc. [[lamb]] [[lam]] (very doubtful) s. Kořínek Listy filol. 62, 280ff. - Further uncertain connections s. 2. <b class="b3">ἄλκη</b> [[Elch]]; s. also Bechtel Lex. s. v., Fraenkel Lit. et. Wb. s. <b class="b2">élnis</b>, Vasmer Russ. et. Wb. s. <b class="b2">olénь</b>, Porzig Gliederung 210.

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