3,277,172
edits
m (Text replacement - "<b class="b2">([\w]+)-([\w]+)<\/b>" to "$1-$2") |
m (Text replacement - "(*UTF)(*UCP)<b class="b3">(\w+)<\/b>" to "$1") |
||
Line 32: | Line 32: | ||
}} | }} | ||
{{etym | {{etym | ||
|etymtx=-οπος<br />Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: 1. poet. adj. of | |etymtx=-οπος<br />Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: 1. poet. adj. of [[ἰχθῦς]] (Hes. Sc. 212), in this function also [[ἔλλοπος]] (Emp. 117) and [[ἐλλός]] (S. Aj. 1297, Ath. 277d); of [[κούρα]] (Theoc. Syrinx 18); 2. poet. for [[fish]] in general (Lyk.); 3. name of a great, rare and expensive fish, which is compared, and identified with, a sturgeon (Arist.); in this meaning usually written [[ἔλοψ]] (Epich., Archestr., Plu.), Lat. <b class="b2">(h)elops</b>; 4. name of a snake (Nic. Th. 490).<br />Derivatives: Denom. verb [[ἐλλοπιεύω]] [[fish]] (Theoc. 1, 42); note [[ἐλλόπιδας]] acc. pl. (Crat. 408 acc. to H.; <b class="b3">-οδες</b> EM 331, 53), acc. to H. a. o. = <b class="b3">τοὺς στρουθοὺς η νεοττοὺς ὄφεως</b>; unclear [[ἀλλοπίης]] adj. of [[τράχουρος]] (Numen. ap. Ath. 7, 326a).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: The ancients explained the word either as [[dumb]] or as [[scaly]], the first with an impossible etymology. The meaning [[scaly]] is interpreted as [[ἔλλοπος]] < <b class="b3">*ἔν-λοπος</b>, prepositional bahuvrihi of [[λοπός]] [[scale]]; the shortened form [[ἔλλοψ]] would be after animal's names in <b class="b3">-οψ</b> (metri causa?); a second analogical shortening (cf. [[αἶθοψ]] : [[αἰθός]]) gave [[ἐλλός]]. Remains the single [[λ]] in [[ἔλοψ]], Lat. <b class="b2">(h)elops</b>; as this notation seems to indicate a special fish, [[ἔλοψ]] could be of foreign origin. This would mean a cross of a foreign fish name with an inherited adjective - Cf. Thompson s. v. and Strömberg Fischnamen 30f. - The interchange [[λ]]\/[[λλ]] is frequent in Pre-Greek (Fur. 387); further we find [[ο]]\/[[α]] and [[π]]\/[[β]]: <b class="b3">ἀλ(λ)άβης</b> (Str. 17,2,4, Ath. 7, 312b; PTeb.), [[ἔλαψ]] (Gp.); interchange <b class="b3">-αβ-</b>\/<b class="b3">-οπ-</b> is well known. Fur. 107; here also [[ἀλλοπίης]]. So we prob. have a pre-Greek word fo a great fish. I reconstruct <b class="b2">*alya\/op\/b-</b>, see Beekes, Pre-Greek. | ||
}} | }} | ||
{{mdlsj | {{mdlsj |