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|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj., subst.<br />Meaning: 1. adj. <b class="b2">fall head-foremost</b> (E 586; after it Call., Lyc.); 2. subst. prob. <b class="b2">crown of a helmet</b> (O536).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: As the meanings cannot be united, Leumann Hom. Wörter 231 ff. tries to explain them from different interpretations and reshapings of a pre-homeric scene; like Bechtel Lex. he is inclined to consider the substantival, technical function as the primary one. The formation too speaks for this; cf. esp. <b class="b3">οὑρίαχος</b> <b class="b2">spear-end</b>, <b class="b3">στόμαχος</b> prop. "mouth-end", [[throat]]. One takes as basis <b class="b3">κύμβη</b> <b class="b2">drinking cup</b> (s.v.)? Others (Hofmann Et. Wb., Kuiper <b class="b3">Μνήμης χάριν</b> 1, 213f.) start from a nasalized form of <b class="b3">κύβη</b> [[head]], <b class="b3">κυβιστᾶν</b> (s. v.). The nasal-less form <b class="b3">κυβ-</b> shows that the word is Pre-Greek.
|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj., subst.<br />Meaning: 1. adj. <b class="b2">fall head-foremost</b> (E 586; after it Call., Lyc.); 2. subst. prob. <b class="b2">crown of a helmet</b> (O536).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: As the meanings cannot be united, Leumann Hom. Wörter 231 ff. tries to explain them from different interpretations and reshapings of a pre-homeric scene; like Bechtel Lex. he is inclined to consider the substantival, technical function as the primary one. The formation too speaks for this; cf. esp. <b class="b3">οὑρίαχος</b> <b class="b2">spear-end</b>, <b class="b3">στόμαχος</b> prop. "mouth-end", [[throat]]. One takes as basis <b class="b3">κύμβη</b> <b class="b2">drinking cup</b> (s.v.)? Others (Hofmann Et. Wb., Kuiper <b class="b3">Μνήμης χάριν</b> 1, 213f.) start from a nasalized form of <b class="b3">κύβη</b> [[head]], <b class="b3">κυβιστᾶν</b> (s. v.). The nasal-less form <b class="b3">κυβ-</b> shows that the word is Pre-Greek.
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|mdlsjtxt=κύμβᾰχος, ον [[κύπτω]]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> [[head]]-[[foremost]], Lat. [[pronus]], Il.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> as Subst. the [[crown]] of a [[helmet]], Il.
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