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|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[top]], [[angle]], [[corner]] (Hp.).<br />Compounds: As 1. member in <b class="b3">ὀκρί-βας</b>, <b class="b3">-αντος</b> m. prop. <b class="b2">walking on the top</b>, <b class="b2">elevated place, stage, stand</b> (Pl.; cf. Schwyzer 526, Chantraine Form. 269 f.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">ὀκρι-όεις</b> [[scharpedged]], [[spiky]] (Hom., A., hell. poet.; on the formation Debrunner <b class="b3">Ἀντίδωρον</b> 28 f.); <b class="b3">ὀκρίς</b> f. [[spiky]] adjunct of <b class="b3">φάραγξ</b> (A. Pr. 1016); <b class="b3">ὀκρι-άομαι</b> (on the formation Schwyzer 732) in <b class="b3">ὀκριόωντο</b> <b class="b2">they incited themselves, they were fierce</b> (σ 33), <b class="b3">ὠκριωμένος</b> (Lyc. 545); <b class="b3">ὀκρι-άζω</b> <b class="b2">to be brusque, to be bitter</b> (S. Fr. 1075).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [21] <b class="b2">*h₂oḱris</b> [[top]], [[angle]], [[corner]]<br />Etymology: With Lat. [[ocris]] m. <b class="b2">stony mountain</b> (with <b class="b2">medi-ocris</b> prop. <b class="b2">on half height</b>), Umbr. [[ukar]], gen. [[ocrer]] [[arx]], [[mons]], MIr. <b class="b2">och(a)ir</b> [[edge]], [[border]] identical (Skt. <b class="b2">áśri-</b> f. <b class="b2">corner, sharp edge</b> with IE <b class="b2">a-</b> or <b class="b2">o-</b> < <b class="b2">*h₂e-\/o-</b>), <b class="b2">o-</b>ablaut of <b class="b2">aḱ-</b> in [[ἄκρος]] etc., s. v.; cf. also [[ὀξύς]]. Details w. lit. in W.-Hofmann s. v., also WP. 1, 28, Pok. 21.

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