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|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">name of small crustaceans;</b> see Thompson Fishes s. v.<br />Other forms: <b class="b3">-ίδος</b> (Anan., old com.), <b class="b3">-ῖδος</b> (middl. com.), also [[κουρίς]], [[κωρίς]] (Epich., Sophr.)<br />Derivatives: [[καρίδιον]] (Arist.), [[καριδάριον]] (Anaxandr.); [[καριδόω]] (<b class="b3">τὸ σῶμα</b>) <b class="b2">(move the body) like a καρίς, wriggle, twist about like a shrimp</b> (Anaxandr.)<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: Acc. to Ath. 3, 106b <b class="b3">ἀπὸ τοῦ κάρα τὸ πλεῖστον γὰρ μέρος τοῦ σώματος ἡ κεφαλη ἀπηνέγκατο</b>, clearly a folketymology, which was accepted by Ehrlich KZ 39, 556f.: [[καρίς]] from <b class="b3">*καρσ-ίς</b>, [[κουρίς]], [[κωρίς]] aus <b class="b3">*κορσίς</b>; for the last basis in any case there is no support (cf. on [[κόρση]]). Rather to [[κάραβος]] as popular short form; also [[κουρίς]], [[κωρίς]] must be popular formations. Bechtel, Gr. Dial. 1, 58 a. 2, 243f. assumed <b class="b3">*καϜαρις</b> resp. <b class="b3">*κωϜαρις</b>. Cf. Adjarian Mélanges Boisacq 1, 4, who considers [[καρίς]] together with Arm. [[karič]] [[scorpion]] as an Asiatic loan. The variation is not understood; DELG pleads for an association with [[κώρα]], [[κούρα]] [[girl]] (hardly understandable). The variation may well point to a Pre-Greek word.