ἀπήνη: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">wagon with four wheels</b> (Il.). Synonym of <b class="b3">ἅμαξα</b>, Delebecque Cheval 174f.<br />Other forms: <b class="b3">πήνα· ἀπήνη</b> H.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Unknown. The first question is the relation with <b class="b3">πήνα ἀπήνη</b> H.; apocopated acc. to Strömberg Wortstudien 45; thus Fur. 374: the analysis must be <b class="b3">ἀπ-ηνη</b>; but rejected by Winter Prothet. Vokal 13 (if the <b class="b3">ἀ-</b> is a proth. vowel, the word would be a substr. word). Then there is the synonym <b class="b3">καπάνα</b> (Xenarch. 11, Thess.), s. Güntert Reimwortbildungen 152; the agreement is remarkable, the word is hardly IE. Fur. 224 n. 96 compares <b class="b3">γάπος ὄχημα</b>. <b class="b3">Τυρρηνοί</b> H. He also adduces (285) <b class="b3">λαμπήνη</b> id. (with <b class="b3">λαπίνη</b>, which shows prenasalization; on <b class="b3">λ</b>\/zero see Fur. 392). Further one has compared <b class="b3">ἀμανάν ἅμαξαν</b> H. There is also Myc. [[apenewo]], which would be drawing animals; but <b class="b3">ἀπήνη</b> will have <b class="b3">-ανα</b>. Banat̨eanu REIE 3, 141 thought the word is Anatolian (which amounts to saying that it is a substr. word), which DELG considers possible (but not because <b class="b3">ἄμαξα</b> is IE, q.v.!); Szemerényi, JHS 94 (1974) 149f. thought it could be Semitic. - The comparison with <b class="b3">καπάνα</b> is the most convincing and shows foreign (substr.) origin (<b class="b3">κ-</b>\/zero Fur. 391f.).