κηκίς: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=-ῖδος<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">anything gushing forth, ooze</b>, of blood, purple, pitch, fat (A., S.), <b class="b2">dye from oak-gall, oak-gall</b> (Hp., D., Thphr.);<br />Dialectal forms: Dor. <b class="b3">κακίς</b>,<br />Derivatives: Diminut. <b class="b3">κηκίδιον</b> (medic.). - With, as denominative of an <b class="b3">ι-</b>stem (Schwyzer 727), <b class="b3">κηκίω</b> (Dor. <b class="b3">κακίω</b> H.), only present-stem, also with <b class="b3">ἀνα-</b>, <b class="b2">gush forth</b> (Il.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Uncertain. Since Fick 1, 420 compared with Lith. <b class="b2">šókti</b> [[spring]], [[danc]], IE. <b class="b2">*ḱāk-</b>. (The (nasalized) form <b class="b3">καγκύλας κηκῖδας</b>. <b class="b3">Αἰολεῖς</b> is compared with Lith. <b class="b2">šankùs</b> [[flink]], but this cannot be connected as IE.) (Not here Thraco-Phryg. <b class="b3">σίκιν(ν)ις</b> <b class="b2">dance of the satyrs in honour of Dionysos</b> (S., E.). Further, quite uncertain or arbitrary combinations in Solmsen Wortforsch. 145 n. 2. - <b class="b3">κηκίς</b>, <b class="b3">-ῖδος</b> is from an old <b class="b2">ī-</b>stem (Chantraine Formation 347) or a backformation from <b class="b3">κηκίω</b>. - I think that the connection with <b class="b2">šókti</b> must be abandoned. The word will be Pre-Greek. The prenasalization in <b class="b3">καγκύλας</b> proves this; also the suffix <b class="b3">-ιδ-</b> is Pre-Greek.