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|etymtx=-ακος<br />Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[outpouring]], [[gusher]] (ep. Ion. poet. Π 825).<br />Compounds: <b class="b3">πολυ-πῖδαξ</b> <b class="b2">having many springs</b> (Il.; on the form of the 2. member Sommer Nominalkomp. 69f.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">πιδακ-ῖτις</b> f. <b class="b2">belonging to a spring</b> (Hp. Ep.; Redard 25), <b class="b3">-όεις</b> <b class="b2">rich in springs</b> (E.), <b class="b3">-ώδης</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Plu.). -- Also <b class="b3">πιδήεσσα</b> f. <b class="b2">id.</b> (<b class="b3">Ἴδη Λ</b> 183; well attested v.l. <b class="b3">πηδ-</b>; s. <b class="b3">πηδός</b>); <b class="b3">πιδυλίς</b> (cod. <b class="b3">πηδ-</b>) <b class="b3">πέτρα</b>, <b class="b3">ἐξ ἧς ὕδωρ ῥέει</b> H. -- Verbs: <b class="b3">πιδάω</b> also w. <b class="b3">δια-</b>, <b class="b2">to spring, to spout up</b> (Arist.); <b class="b3">πιδύω</b> also w. <b class="b3">ἀνα-</b>, <b class="b3">ἀπο-</b>, <b class="b3">δια-</b>, <b class="b2">id.</b> (Hp., Arist., Thphr.); <b class="b3">πίδυσις</b> f. <b class="b2">trickling through</b> (Hp.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: Given the strong productivity and formal variation of the nouns in <b class="b3">-αξ</b> (Chantraine Form. 276ff., Schwyzer 497) the basis of <b class="b3">πῖδαξ</b> cannot be ascertained. A noun <b class="b3">*πίδ-η</b>, <b class="b3">-ος</b> may be assumed because of <b class="b3">πιδάω</b>, <b class="b3">-ήεσσσα</b>; but <b class="b3">πιδ-ύω</b>, and <b class="b3">-υλίς</b> point best to an <b class="b3">υ-</b>stem <b class="b3">*πῖδυς</b>. -- Certain cognates outside Greek have not been found; one compares since Fick (1, 482; 3, 241; cf. also Curtius 655) the Germ. words for [[fat]], e.g. OWNo. [[feitr]], MHG [[veiz]], PGm. <b class="b2">*faita-</b>, OWNo. [[fita]] f. [[fat]], PGm. <b class="b2">*fitō-n-</b>; IE <b class="b2">*poid-</b>: <b class="b2">pid-</b>. If one seprates the <b class="b2">-d-</b> one comes to <b class="b2">pi-</b> in <b class="b3">πῖαρ</b> etc. (s. v.). but this is long; a connection, which semantically fits better for the Germ. then for the Greek words. Cf. also [[πίσεα]] and [[πίτυς]]. - The word could well be Pre-Greek (Furnée 259),

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