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Menander, Monostichoi, 326

French (Bailly abrégé)

οῦ (ὁ) :
couverture de cheval velue des deux côtés.
Étymologie: DELG emprunt oriental à un mot pop. désigant la prostituée.

Russian (Dvoretsky)

κασᾶς: οῦ ὁ попона, чепрак Xen.

Frisk Etymological English

-ᾶ, -ᾶν
Grammatical information: m.
Meaning: horse-cloth; (Agatharch., X. Kyr.), κασῆς (PTeb.), also κάσσος (Hdn. 1, 208), acc. to H. ἱμάτιον παχὺ καὶ τραχύ, περιβόλαιον, and κάς ... δέρμα H., PLond. 2, 402 V 5.
Compounds: As 1. member in κασ(σ)ο-ποιός (pap., Ostr.);
Derivatives: κασωτός adjunct of ἐσθής (Diog. Oen.).
Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] orient.
Etymology: Oriental loan, cf. Hebr. kissē' and kesūṭ prop. cover, (upper)cloth; Cuny MSL 19, 193f. and Nyberg in Björck Alpha impurum 295. Wrong IE. etymologies were rejcted by Bq. From Greek to Lat. casula. Kramer, AfP 45 (1999) 192-204 and AfP 46 (2000) 62-64.

Frisk Etymology German

κασᾶς: -ᾶ, -ᾶν (Agatharch., X. Kyr.),
{kasãs}
Forms: κασῆς (PTeb.); auch κάσσος (Hdn. 1, 208), nach H. ἱμάτιον παχὺ καὶ τραχύ, περιβόλαιον, und κάς· ... δέρμα H., PLond. 2, 402 V 5.
Grammar: m.
Meaning: ‘Pferdedecke, -schabrake’;
Composita : Als Vorderglied in κασ(σ)οποιός (Pap., Ostr.);
Derivative: Ableitung κασωτός Beiw. von ἐσθής (Diog. Oen.).
Etymology : Orientalisches Fremdwort, vgl. hebr. kissē’ und kesūṭ eig. Bedeckung, bzw. ‘(Ober)kleid’; Cuny MSL 19, 193f. und Nyberg bei Björck Alpha impurum 295 (wo auch weitere Einzelheiten). Verfehlte idg. Etymologien werden von Bq abgelehnt.
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