παλάθη: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[cake made of conserved fruits]] (Hdt. 4, 23, Thphr., LXX).<br />Other forms: [[παλάσιον]] bel.<br />Derivatives: Dimin. <b class="b3">παλαθ-ίς</b> f. (Ph. Bel., Str.), <b class="b3">-ιον</b> n. (Polem. Hist.), also <b class="b3">παλάσ-ιον</b> (Ar. Pax 574; [[varia lectio|v.l.]] <b class="b3">-θιον</b>); <b class="b3">-ώδης</b> [[π]].-like' (Dsc.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: If, as probable, to [[πλάσσω]] (s.v.), only in ablaut deviating from second part of the compounds <b class="b3">κορο-</b>, <b class="b3">πηλο-πλάθος</b> and from [[πλάθανον]] (s.v.). The same (disyll.) root has been supposed in <b class="b3">παλά-μη</b>, <b class="b3">παλα-στή</b>, but a root <b class="b2">*plh₂-</b> cannot have given <b class="b3">πλα-</b>; full grade in <b class="b3">πέλα-νος</b> ? Cf. also [[πλάξ]] (which cannot have a disyll. root). After Prellwitz however to [[πλῆθος]], [[πίμπλημι]], but <b class="b2">*pleh₁-</b> is here impossible. -- Or an adapted foreign word (quite hypothetic etymology by Lewy Fremdw. 77; s. also Grimme Glotta 14, 17)? To be rejected Specht Ursprung 255 : [[θ]] from IE. [[th]]. - Furnée 259 cites <b class="b3">παλάσια τὰ συγκεκομμένα σῦκα</b>. <b class="b3">καὶ διὰ τοῦ θ παλάθια</b> H.; the variation [[θ]]\/[[σ]] shows that it is a Pre-Greek word.