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|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">loam, clay, mud, dung, bog</b> (IA.).<br />Other forms: Dor. <b class="b3">παλός</b> (Sophr., inscr.).<br />Compounds: Compp., e.g. <b class="b3">πηλο-φορέω</b> <b class="b2">to bear clay</b> (Ar.), <b class="b3">ἀκρό-πηλος</b> <b class="b2">with mud above</b> (Plb.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">πήλ-ινος</b> <b class="b2">made of clay</b> (D., Arist.), <b class="b3">-αῖος</b> <b class="b2">id., living in mud</b> (Man., Paus.), <b class="b3">-ώδης</b> [[loamy]], [[muddy]] (IA.), <b class="b3">-ώεις</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Opp.; after <b class="b3">εὑρώεις</b> a.o.; Chantraine Form. 274, Schwyzer 527); <b class="b3">-όομαι</b>, <b class="b3">-όω</b>, rarely with <b class="b3">περι-</b> a.o., <b class="b2">made of loam. etc., to be covered in, to ballast with clay</b> (late) with <b class="b3">-ωσις</b> f. [[besmearing]], <b class="b3">-ωμα</b> n. [[mud]] (Charis.). -- Expressive denominat. <b class="b3">προ-πηλακίζω</b> eig. "to tread in the mud before oneself" = <b class="b2">to treat contumeliously, to insult</b> (Att.) with <b class="b3">-ισμός</b> m. [[dishonour]], [[reproach]] (IA.), <b class="b3">-ισις</b> f. [[insulting]] (Po.); on the diff. of meaning Röttger Substantivbildungen 19. Prob. direct from <b class="b3">πηλός</b> after other verbs in <b class="b3">-ακ-ίζω</b> (<b class="b3">πῆλαξ</b> only as explanation of <b class="b3">πηλακίζω</b> EM 669, 49; also pap. IIIa; <b class="b3">πηλακισμός</b> Suid.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: Without convincing etymology. Several hypotheses: to Lat. [[palūs]] f. <b class="b2">standing water</b> etc. (Curtius 275 a. A. after Bopp etc.; rejected by Bq); to OCS [[kalъ]] [[mud]], [[dung]], Lat. [[squālus]] [[dirty]] (Meillet MSL 13, 291 f.; against this W.-Hofmann s.v.); to Lat. [[palleō]] <b class="b2">be pale</b>, <b class="b3">πελιός</b> etc. (Schulze Kl. Schr. 112; here after sch. also [[palūs]] etc.). Byforms <b class="b3">πάλκος πηλός</b> H. (recalling Lith. <b class="b2">pélkė</b> f. <b class="b2">swamp, (peat)-marsh</b>), <b class="b3">πάσκος πηλός</b> H. (so <b class="b3">πηλός</b> from <b class="b3">*πασ-λός</b>?; Sommer Lautst. 74). On the phonetics still Forbes Glotta 36, 242; farreaching speculations on the morphology in Specht Ursprung 64, 117, 187, 234 (all quite uncertain). --Further details w. lit. in Bq, W.-Hofmann s. 2. [[palūs]] and 2. [[squālus]], WP. 1, 441 u. 2, 53. - So unknown; Pre-Greek?

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