κρίκος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">ring, at the end of a carriage-pole, on a sail, curtain-ring, arm-, fingerring etc.</b> (Ω 272, Hdt. 2, 36, Arist., Thphr., hell. inscr.);<br />Other forms: Ac. <b class="b3">κρίκα κρίκον</b> H. Also <b class="b3">κίρκος</b> (hell.; cf. <b class="b3">κιρκόω</b> below)<br />Compounds: Rarely as 1. member, e.g. in <b class="b3">κρικ-ηλασία</b> <b class="b2">trundling of hoops</b> (Antyll. ap. Orib. 6, 26. 1).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">κιρκίον</b> <b class="b2">small ring</b> (Delos IIa), <b class="b3">κρικέλ(λ)ιον</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Alex. Trall., sch.; like <b class="b3">ψέλ(λ)ιον</b>; cf. Lat. [[circellus]]); <b class="b3">κρικωτός</b> <b class="b2">consisting of rings</b> (hell.); cf. <b class="b3">κρικόομαι</b> [[be fastened with a ring]] (Str.) with <b class="b3">κρίκωσις</b> (Heliod. ap. Orib.), <b class="b3">-ωμα</b> (Eust.); <b class="b3">κιρκόω</b> [[fetter with a ring]] (A. Pr. 74). Several H.-glosses: <b class="b3">κρικάδεια τὸ ἐναλ-λάξαι τοὺς δακτύλους ὥσπερ</b> [+]<b class="b3">κρυβούς</b>; <b class="b3">ἐγκρικάδεια συναφη χειρῶν εἰς τοὑπίσω</b>; <b class="b3">ἐγκρίκια ξύλα κεκκαμμένα</b>.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [569] <b class="b2">*krik-</b> [[circle]]<br />Etymology: Not to <b class="b3">Κίρκη</b> (Fick KZ 44, 347); against this Güntert Kalypso 16. - On <b class="b3">κιρσός</b> (<b class="b3">κρισσός</b>, <b class="b3">κριξός</b>) s. v. If IE, <b class="b3">κίρκος</b> is phonetically impossible; also on chronological grounds <b class="b3">κρίκος</b> must be original; from there with transposition <b class="b3">κίρκος</b> (Schwyzer 267, Lejeune Traité de phon. 122). Further analysis is quite hypothetical; both IE <b class="b2">-kri-k-o-</b> (Hofmann) and <b class="b2">*ki-kr-o-</b> > <b class="b2">*kriko-</b> (WP. 2, 569) bring the word in the all-covering family (<b class="b2">s)ker-</b> [[turn]], [[bend]] (Pok. 935). - To <b class="b3">κιρκος</b>, as LW [loanword], Lat. [[circus]] <b class="b2">circle </b> (Thurneysen in the Thes., Hofmann, Ernout Aspects du vocab. [[latin]] 69); acc. to others, e.g. WP., (Ernout -)-Meillet s. [[circus]], old cognate (because of [[circum]]); from [[circus]] through back-loaning hell. a. late <b class="b3">κίρκος</b> <b class="b2">id.</b>; from there and from [[circulus]] the Westeurop. forms.