σμερδαλέος: Difference between revisions

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|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[terrible]], [[grisly]], [[frightening]], [[fearsome]], of appearance, cry and shouting (ep. Il.).<br />Other forms: <b class="b3">σμερδνος</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Il., h. Hom., A. Pr. 355, Nic.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [736, 970] <b class="b2">*(s)merd-</b> <b class="b2">rub (open)</b><br />Etymology: With <b class="b3">σμερδαλέος</b> cf. <b class="b3">λευγαλέος</b>, <b class="b3">ἀργαλέος</b> a. o.; <b class="b3">σμερδνός</b> like <b class="b3">δεινός</b> a. o. The pair <b class="b3">σμερδ-αλέος</b> : <b class="b3">σμερδ-νός</b> shows a suffixal interchange [[l]] : [[n]] (as <b class="b3">ἰσχαλέος</b> : <b class="b3">ἰσχνός</b> a. o.; Benveniste Origines 45f.). An agreeing <b class="b2">s-</b>stem (as <b class="b3">θαρσαλέος</b> : <b class="b3">θάρσος</b>) is indeed found <b class="b3">σμέρδ[ν]ος λῆμα</b>, <b class="b3">ῥώμη</b>, <b class="b3">δύναμις</b>, <b class="b3">ὅρμημα</b> and <b class="b3">εὑσμερδής εὔρωστος</b> H.; on the meaning cf. <b class="b3">δεινότης</b> also [[power]], [[force]], [[dexterity]]. -- Since Ebel KZ 7, 227 (cf. also Curtius 692 f.) one onnects a primary Germ. verb, OHG [[smerzan]], OE [[smeortan]] [[hurt]], to which with ablaut (PGm. <b class="b2">*smart-</b> < IE <b class="b2">*smord-</b>) OE [[smeart]] [[painful]], NEng. [[smart]] <b class="b2">biting, stinging, sharp, witty, elegant</b>. For further combinations with Lat. [[mordeō]] [[bite]] etc. (IE *(<b class="b2">s)merd-</b> <b class="b2">rub (open)</b>) s. W.-Hofmann s. v. with rich lit. -- Diff. Bolling Stud. in hon. of H. Collitz (Baltimore, 1930) 43ff.: to Lith. <b class="b2">smirdė́ti</b> [[stink]], Goth. [[smarnos]] acc. pl. f. <b class="b3">σκύβαλα</b>', Lat. [[merda]] f. [[dirt]], [[muck]]. On the attempts to connect IE *(<b class="b2">s)mer-d-</b> <b class="b2">rub (open)</b> with <b class="b2">*smerd-</b> [[stink]], s. WP. 2, 279 a. 691, Pok. 736f. a. 970, W.-Hofmann s. [[merda]] and [[mordeō]]; everywhere with further forms and lit. -- Cf. [[σμορδοῦν]].

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