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|etymtx=-ιτος<br />Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: [[honey]] (Il.).<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[meri]].<br />Compounds: Very often as 1. member, e.g. <b class="b3">μελί-κρα-τον</b>, Ion. <b class="b3">-κρη-τον</b> "honey-mix", [[sacrifice of milk and honey]] (Od.), compound with <b class="b3">κεράν-νυμι</b> (s. v.); also <b class="b3">μελιτο-</b>, e.g. <b class="b3">μελιτο-πώλης</b> m. | |etymtx=-ιτος<br />Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: [[honey]] (Il.).<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[meri]].<br />Compounds: Very often as 1. member, e.g. <b class="b3">μελί-κρα-τον</b>, Ion. <b class="b3">-κρη-τον</b> "honey-mix", [[sacrifice of milk and honey]] (Od.), compound with <b class="b3">κεράν-νυμι</b> (s. v.); also <b class="b3">μελιτο-</b>, e.g. <b class="b3">μελιτο-πώλης</b> m. [[honey-trader]] (Ar.); as 2. member a. o. in <b class="b3">οἰνό-μελι</b> [[drink from wine and honey]] (Plb.; cf. Risch IF 59, 58); on <b class="b3">ἀπό-μελι</b> s. v.<br />Derivatives: A. Several adj.: <b class="b3">μελιτόεις</b> [[honeysweet]] (Pi.), f. <b class="b3">μελιτόεσσα</b> (sc. <b class="b3">μᾶζα</b>), Att. <b class="b3">μελιτοῦττα</b> [[honey-cake]] (Hdt., Ar.; Schwyzer 528, Chantraine Form. 272), <b class="b3">μελιτ-ηρός</b> <b class="b2">belonging to honey, honey-like</b> (Ar.. Thphr.), <b class="b3">-ινος</b> <b class="b2">made from h.</b> (pap.), <b class="b3">-ώδης</b> [[honey-like]] (Thphr.). Prob. also <b class="b3">μελι-χρός</b> [[honey-sweet]] (Alc., Anacr., Hp., Telecl., Theoc.), cf. <b class="b3">πενι-χρός βδελυ-χ-ρός</b> and Chantraine Form. 225 f., Hamm Grammatik 77 w. n. 118. Acc. to Sommer Nominalkomp. 26 n. 3 (where extensive treatment) however Aeol. for <b class="b3">μελί-χρως</b> [[honey-coloured]], after Schwyzer 450 for <b class="b3">-χροος</b>. -- B. Subst. <b class="b3">μελίτ(ε)ιον</b> n. [[mead]] (Plu.); <b class="b3">μελιτόν κηρίον</b>, <b class="b3">η τὸ ἑφθὸν γλεῦκος</b> H.; <b class="b3">μελιτίτης</b> (<b class="b3">λίθος</b>) [[topaz]], (<b class="b3">οἶνος</b>) [[honey-wine]] (Dsc.; Redard 57 a. 97); <b class="b3">μελίτεια</b> f. [[Melissa officinalis]] (Theoc.; Strömberg Pflanzennamen 119); <b class="b3">μελιτισμός</b> m. <b class="b2">treatment with h.</b> (medic.) as if from <b class="b3">*μελιτίζειν</b>. -- C. Verb. <b class="b3">μελιτόομαι</b> <b class="b2">mix with h. , be sweetened with h.</b> (Th., Plu.) with <b class="b3">μελίτωμα</b> [[honey-cake]] (Com.), <b class="b3">-ωσις</b> [[sweetening]] (Gloss.). -- On its own stands <b class="b3">μέλισσα</b>, <b class="b3">-ττα</b> f. [[bee]] (Il.), after Schwyzer Glotta 6, 84ff. (thus Fraenkel Glotta 32, 21) haplological for <b class="b3">*μελί-λιχ-ι̯α</b> "honey-leckering"; compare Skt. <b class="b2">madhu-lih-</b> m. "honey-lecker" = [[bee]]; acc. to others however from <b class="b3">*μέλιτ-ι̯α</b>, e.g. Lohmann Genus und Sexus (Erg. -h. 10 to KZ) 82 recalling Arm. [[meɫu]] [[bee]] from [[meɫr]] [[honey]] (thus Schwyzer 320). From it several compp. and derivv., e.g. <b class="b3">μελισσουργός</b> (<b class="b3">-ττ-</b>) [[apiarist]] (Pl., Arist.) with <b class="b3">-έω</b>, <b class="b3">-ία</b>, <b class="b3">-εῖον</b>, <b class="b3">μελισσεύς</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Arist., pap.; Boßhardt 61), also (with diff. origin) as PN (Boßhardt 123f.); <b class="b3">μελίσσιον</b> [[bee-hive]] (pap. IIIa; Georgacas Glotta 36, 170), <b class="b3">-ία</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Gp.; Scheller Oxytonierung 45), <b class="b3">-ών</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (LXX) etc. -- On <b class="b3">βλίττω</b> s. v.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [723] *meli(t) [[honey]]<br />Etymology: Old inherited word for [[honey]], with Hitt. [[milit]] ( = [[melit]]) n. directly identical; further with thematic enlargment Goth. [[miliÞ]] and Alb. <b class="b2">mjaltë</b> (IE <b class="b2">*meli-t-o-m</b>). Also Celt., e.g. OIr. [[mil]], and Lat. [[mel]] can go back on <b class="b2">*meli-t</b>; the <b class="b2">-t</b> was prob. originally only at home in the nom.-acc. (Unclear Lat. gen. [[mellis]]: from <b class="b2">*mel-n-és</b>?; cf. on <b class="b3">μείλιχος</b>). Arm. [[meɫr]], gen. [[meɫu]] was supposedly after the synonymous <b class="b2">*médhu</b> (= <b class="b3">μέθυ</b>, s. v.) transferred to the <b class="b2">u-</b>stems. From unknown source stems <b class="b3">μελίτιον πόμα τι Σκυθικὸν μέλιτος ἑψομένου σὺν ὕδατι καὶ πόᾳ τινί</b> H. -- Details in WP. 2, 296, Pok. 723f., W.-Hofmann s. [[mel]]; cf. (on the spread) Porzig Gliederung 202 f. | ||
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