σκέλος: Difference between revisions

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|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: [[thigh]], [[leg]] (Π 314).<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. <b class="b2">kerea₂</b> (pl.).<br />Compounds: Often as 2. member, e.g. <b class="b3">τετρα-σκελής</b> <b class="b2">four-legged</b> (trag. a. o.).<br />Derivatives: 1. Diminut. <b class="b3">σκελ-ίσκος</b> m. (Ar.), <b class="b3">-ύδριον</b> (Herod., Arr.). 2. <b class="b3">σκελέαι</b> f. pl. [[breeches]] (Critias, Antiph.). 3. <b class="b3">σκελίζω</b> (Plu., S. E.), usu. <b class="b3">ὑπο-</b> σκέλος (Pl., D. etc.) <b class="b2">to trip someone up, to bring him down, to outsmart</b> with (<b class="b3">ὑπο-)σκελ-ισμός</b> m. <b class="b2">the bringing down, downfall</b>, <b class="b3">-ισμα</b> n. [[accident]] (LXX); daneben <b class="b3">σκέλ[λ]ισμα δρόμημα</b> H. 4. also <b class="b3">σκελλός</b> <b class="b2">bandy-legged, διεστραμμένος, ῥαιβός</b> (sch., H., EM; cf. <b class="b3">στρεβλός</b> a. o.; s. also <b class="b3">κυλλός</b>). -- Besides 1. with <b class="b3">ο-</b>ablaut: <b class="b3">σκολιός</b> [[crooked]], [[bent]], [[twisted]], [[unjust]] (Π 387; from <b class="b3">*σκόλος</b> m. after <b class="b3">σκαιός</b> a.o.?; cf. <b class="b3">σκολοῖς δρεπάνοις</b> H.) with <b class="b3">σκολι-ότης</b> f. [[curve]], [[injustice]] (Hp., LXX, Str. a. o.), <b class="b3">-όομαι</b> <b class="b2">to be bent, to curve</b> (Hp., Thphr.) with <b class="b3">-ωσις</b>, <b class="b3">-ωμα</b> (late), <b class="b3">-αίνομαι</b> <b class="b2">to curve</b> (Hp.), <b class="b3">-άζω</b> <b class="b2">to be bent</b> (LXX); <b class="b3">τὸ σκόλιον</b> <b class="b2">drinking-song</b> (Pi.; explanation debated: because they were presented in irregular order?). 2. with lengthened grade <b class="b3">σκώληξ</b>; s. v. -- On <b class="b3">σκαληνός</b> s. [[σκάλλω]]; on <b class="b3">σκελίς</b> s. <b class="b3">σχελις</b>.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [928] <b class="b2">*skel-</b> [[bend]], [[curve]]<br />Etymology: With Lat. [[scelus]] n. [[malice]], [[badness]], [[crime]] formally, orig. also semant. identical as *'curvation, deflection' (cf. <b class="b3">σκολιός</b> [[curved]], [[unright]]). The orig. presence of a verb [[curve]], [[bend]] is demonstrated also by two other primary formations: Germ., OHG [[scelah]], OE [[sceolh]] [[oblique]], [[curved]], [[squinting]], NHG [[scheel]], OWNo. [[skjalgr]] [[oblique]], [[squinting]], PGm. <b class="b2">*skél-ha-</b>, <b class="b2">-gá-</b> < IE <b class="b2">*skel-ko-</b>; Alb. <b class="b2">tshalë</b> [[lame]] < IE <b class="b2">*skel-no-</b>. Quite uncertain Arm. [[šeɫ]] [[slanting]], [[oblique]], [[xeɫ]] [[distorted]], [[crippled]]. Also <b class="b3">κυλλός</b>, <b class="b3">κῶλον</b> a. cogm. are adduced as <b class="b2">s-</b>less variants; s. vv. w. further lit.; further W.-Hoffmann s. [[scelus]]. -- The group <b class="b2">*skel-</b> (Pok. 928) seems rather uncertain. Thus it seems no more than a possibility that <b class="b3">σκολιός</b> is cognate with <b class="b3">σκέλος</b>.

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