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|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">bent to the side, slanting, oblique</b>, metaph. [[ambiguous]] (IA.).<br />Compounds: late compp., e.g. <b class="b3">λοξο-κέλευθος</b> <b class="b2">with oblique paths</b> (Nonn.), <b class="b3">παρά-λοξος</b> [[slanting]], [[oblique]] (Sor.; cf. <b class="b3">παρα-λοξαίνομαι</b> below).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">Λοξίας</b>, ion. <b class="b3">-ίης</b> m. surn. of Apollon as prophesying god (B., Hdt., trag.), also of the ecliptic (astr.; cf. v. Wilamowitz Glaube 1, 256), <b class="b3">Λοξώ</b> f. daughter of Boreas (Call., Nonn., EM 641, 57). - <b class="b3">λοξικὸς κύκλος</b> <b class="b2">the ecliptic</b> (astr.), <b class="b3">λοξότης</b> [[obliquity]], [[ambiguity]] (Str., Plu.). - Denomin. verbs: <b class="b3">λοξόομαι</b>, <b class="b3">-όω</b>, also with <b class="b3">ἐπι-</b>, <b class="b3">ὑπο-</b>, <b class="b2">be, make oblique, look aslant</b> (Sophr., Hp., Herod.) with <b class="b3">λόξωσις</b> <b class="b2">inclination, obliquity (of the ecliptic)</b> (Epicur., Str.); (<b class="b3">δια-)λοξεύω</b> <b class="b2">make aslant, ambiguous</b> (Lib.) with <b class="b3">λοξεύματα</b> pl. [[obliquities]] (Man.); <b class="b3">παρα-λοξαίνομαι</b> <b class="b2">be made obliquely</b> (Hp.),<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: There are several adj. with comparable meaning with <b class="b3">σο-</b>suffix: <b class="b3">γαυσός</b>, <b class="b3">καμψός</b>, <b class="b3">φοξός</b>, <b class="b3">ῥυσός</b> etc. (Schwyzer 516, Chantraine Form. 434, Specht Ursprung 199ff.). Connection with <b class="b3">λέχριος</b>, and to <b class="b3">λεκροί</b> (s. <b class="b3">Λοκροί</b>) seems very probable, but as with so many of these adj. the exact formation cannot be determined; the [[o]] -vowel speaks for a nominal basis. Further connections are not very clear, e.g. the supposed relation with <b class="b3">λέκος</b>, <b class="b3">λεκάνη</b> [[trough]], [[dish]], Lat. [[lanx]] (mean.!). Semantically closer comes Lat. [[licinus]] <b class="b2">upside bent</b>; quite hypothetical the Gaul. PN [[Lexovii]], [[Lixovii]]; from Celtic one adduces Welsh [[llechwedd]] [[declivity]], [[slope]]. Further there are expressions for elbow, arm and other (crooked) body-parts with initial vowel, e.g. Lith. <b class="b2">alkúne</b> [[elbow]], Russ. <b class="b2">lókotь</b> <b class="b2">el(bow)</b> (PSlav. <b class="b2">*olkъt-</b>), Arm. <b class="b2">olok`</b> <b class="b2">shin-bone</b>. - If one cuts off the [[k]] and adds (without motivation) [[ei]] (IE <b class="b2">el-ei-</b>, <b class="b2">l-ei-</b> [[bend]]) one is helpless lost "in the etymological marsh", s. WP. 1, 156ff., Pok. 307ff., W.-Hofmann s. [[lacertus]], [[lanx]], [[valgus]]. So nothing remotely probable.

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