ἐρέβινθος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">chick-pea</b> (Il.).<br />Derivatives: Deminut. <b class="b3">ἐρεβίνθιον</b> (pap.) and <b class="b3">ἐρεβινθ-ώδης</b> (Thphr.), <b class="b3">-ειος</b> (Zen.), <b class="b3">-ιαῖος</b> (Dsk.), <b class="b3">-ινος</b> (H., Phot., Suid.).<br />Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Eastmediterr.?<br />Etymology: To [[ὄροβος]] <b class="b2">id.</b> (s. v.) with the Pre-Greek suffix <b class="b3">-ινθος</b> (Schwyzer 526, Chantraine Formation 370; s. also Kretschmer Glotta 30, 133). Further to Lat. [[ervum]] <b class="b2">a kind of vetch</b>, with which some Celtic and Germanic words for <b class="b2">pea etc.</b> are compared: OHG [[araweiz]], [[arwiz]] [[pea]], MIr. [[orbaind]] [[grain]]. The word may come from the eastern Mediterranean area, s. W.-Hofmann [[ervum]]. Cf. also (<b class="b3">-ινθος</b> < <b class="b3">*-ιθος</b> to <b class="b2">-weiz</b> in <b class="b2">ara-weiz</b>?) Kuiper <b class="b3">Μνήμης χάριν</b> 1, 217f., Deroy Glotta 35, 180ff. - Skt. <b class="b2">aravinda-</b> n. [[lotusflower]] does not belong here; cf. Mayrhofer Wb. s. v.