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|etymtx=-αντος<br />Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: | |etymtx=-αντος<br />Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[ivory]], [[elefant-tooth]] (Il.; cf. Treu Philol. 99, 149ff.), [[elefant]] (Hdt.), also as the name of a disease = <b class="b3">ἐλεφαντίασις</b>, s. Strömberg Theophrastea 193.<br />Dialectal forms: Myk. <b class="b2">e-re-pa</b>, <b class="b2">-to</b>, <b class="b2">-te</b> \/[[elephas]]\/ etc.<br />Compounds: As 1. member in both meanings, <b class="b3">ἐλεφαντό-πους</b> [[with ivory feet]] (Pl. Com.), ἐλέφας <b class="b3">-μάχος</b> [[fighting elephants]] (Str.).<br />Derivatives: Diminut. <b class="b3">ἐλεφαντίσκιον</b> [[young elephant]] (Ael.); adj. <b class="b3">ἐλεφάντινος</b> [[of ivory]] (Alc., Att.), <b class="b3">-ίνεος</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (inscr.; on the formation Chantr. Form. 203), <b class="b3">ἐλεφάντ-ειος</b> [[belonging to an elephant]] (Dsc., Opp.), <b class="b3">-ώδης</b> [[elephant-like]] (Mediz.), <b class="b3">-ιωδής</b> <b class="b2">suffering from eleph.</b> (medic.); subst. <b class="b3">ἐλεφαντιστής</b> [[elephant-driver]] (Arist.), also <b class="b2">shield from elephant-skin</b> (App.; example?), <b class="b3">ἐλεφαντεύς</b> [[ivory-worker]] (pap.). Denomin. <b class="b3">ἐλεφαντ-ιάω</b> <b class="b2">suffer from eleph.</b> (Phld., medic.) with <b class="b3">-ίασις</b>, also <b class="b3">-ιασμός</b> (EM); <b class="b3">-όω</b> [[with ivory inlays]] with <b class="b3">-ωτός</b> (nscr.).<br />Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Egypt.<br />Etymology: Like Lat. [[ebur]] <b class="b3">ἐλέφας</b> is a foreigm word. The final (except the <b class="b3">ντ-</b>suffix) recalls like Lat. [[eb-ur]] an Egypt. <b class="b2">āb(u</b>), Copt. <b class="b3">εβ(ο)υ</b> [[elephant]], [[ivory]], Skt. <b class="b2">íbha-</b> [[elephant]]; the begin recurs in Hamit. <b class="b2">eḷu</b> [[elephant]] (from where through Egypt. [<b class="b2">p-</b> Art.] Pers. [[pīl]], Arab. [[fīl]]); details remain unclear. - From <b class="b3">ἐλέφας</b> Lat. [[elephās]], [[elephantus]], from there the Germanic and Romance forms. W.-Hofmann s. [[ebur]], Lokotsch Et. Wb. d. europ. Wörter orient. Ursprungs Nr. 605, Mayrhofer Wb. s. <b class="b2">íbhaḥ</b>2, Feist Vgl. Wb. d. got. Spr. s. ulbandus. - Wrong Kretschmer WienAkAnz. 1951 : 21, 307ff.: to <b class="b3">ἐλεφαίρομαι</b> as "destroyer" (orig. connected with the Mammoth), s. Mayrhofer Stud. z. idg. Grundsprache 44f. | ||
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