ῥαιβός: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[crooked]], [[bent inward]], esp. of legs (cf. Fraenkel, <b class="b3">Μνήμης χάριν</b> 1, 100; Arist., Nic.).<br />Compounds: As 1. member a.o. in <b class="b3">ῥαιβο-ειδής</b> <b class="b2">crooked of shape</b> (Hp.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">ῥαιβ-ηδόν</b> <b class="b2">in bendings</b> (Euph.), <b class="b3">-όω</b> <b class="b2">to bend</b> (Lyc., Gal.), <b class="b3">-ότης</b> f. [[bendedness]] (Eust.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: The words in <b class="b3">-βός</b> express often a corporeal defect, e.g. <b class="b3">κολοβός</b>, <b class="b3">κλαμβός</b>, <b class="b3">σκαμβός</b>, <b class="b3">ὑβός</b>; the <b class="b3">β</b> may belong to the root (<b class="b3">στραβός</b>). Also in <b class="b3">ῥαιβός</b> the <b class="b3">β</b> is old and inherited, if the comparison with Germ., e.g. Goth. [[wraiqs]] <b class="b3">σκολιός</b>' is reliable: IE <b class="b2">*u̯roigʷo-</b> or <b class="b2">*u̯roig-u̯o-</b> (Aufrecht KZ 12, 400, Persson Beitr. 1, 502 n.1). On the <b class="b3">α-</b>vowel cf. [[κλαμβός]] a.o. above, also <b class="b3">λαιός</b>, <b class="b3">σκαιός</b> (w. old <b class="b2">u̯o-</b>suffix). Other proposal, not to be preferred by Solmsen KZ 34, 552: to Lith. <b class="b2">sráigė</b> [[snail]] (s. Fraenkel s.v.). -- Further details (parly diff.) w. lit. in Bq, WP. 1, 279, Pok. 1158, Feist Vgl. Wb. s. [[wraiqs]]. Cf. [[ῥοικός]], also <b class="b3">ῥυβός</b>. -- The vocalism can only be explained if we assume <b class="b2">*wreh₂ig-u̯-</b>, which cannot be combined with <b class="b2">*u̯roig-u̯-</b>; so the word is prob. not IE, and may be Pre-Greek.