λαιός: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(A), ὁ, a kind of thrush, prob. the <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[blue thrush]], [[Petrocichla cyanus]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>617a15</span>, <span class="bibl">Ant.Lib.19.3</span>.</span><br /><span class="bld">λαιός</span> (B), ά, όν, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[left]], <b class="b3">λαιᾷ μὲν ἴτυν προβάλεσθε</b> (sc. <b class="b3">χειρί</b>) <span class="bibl">Tyrt.15.3</span>; <b class="b3">λαιᾶς χειρός</b> [[on the left]] hand, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>714</span>; πρὸς λαιᾷ χερί <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">HF</span>159</span>; <b class="b3">λαιοῖσι</b> [[on the left]], <span class="bibl">Parm.17</span>; ἐπὶ λαιὰ κεκλιμένον <span class="bibl">Arat.160</span>, cf. Heliod. ap.Stob.4.36.8; <b class="b3">οἱ τὸ λ. ἔχοντες</b> (sc. <b class="b3">μέρος</b>) <span class="bibl">D.S.13.99</span>; <b class="b3">ἐς λαιὰν ἐσιόντων χῆρα</b> (Dor.) <span class="title">IG</span>14.1721.3; τῇ λαιᾷ τοῦ δεξιοῦ λαβόμενος κέρως <span class="bibl">Philostr.Jun.<span class="title">Im.</span>4</span>. (Poet., but not in Hom., who uses <b class="b3">ἀριστερός</b>: also in later Prose, <b class="b3">τὰ διδόμενα τῇ δεξιᾷ δέχεσθαι τῇ λαιᾷ χειρί</b> Prov. ap.<span class="bibl">Plb.38.10.9</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Jul.<span class="title">Or.</span>2.57d</span>, etc.) (Orig. <b class="b3">λαιϝός</b>, cf. Lat.[[laevus]], Slav. [[lèvǔ]]: in Hsch. we have <b class="b3">λαίβα</b>, i.e. <b class="b3">λαίϝα</b>, = [[ἀσπίς]], because borne on the left arm; cf. <b class="b3">λαῖφα, λαῖτα, λαφός</b>.)</span>

|etymtx=1.<br />Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[left]], <b class="b3">ἡ λαιά</b> <b class="b2">the left (hand)</b> (Tyrt., A.);<br />Derivatives: Diminut. (context unknown) <b class="b3">λαίδιον ἀριστερόν</b>, <b class="b3">εὑώνυμον</b> H.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [652] <b class="b2">*leh₂iu̯o-</b> [[left]]<br />Etymology: Old word for [[left]], identical with Lat. [[laevus]], Slav., e. g. OCS <b class="b2">lěvъ</b>, Russ. <b class="b2">lévyj</b> ; IE. <b class="b2">*lai̯u̯os = *leh₂i-uo-?</b>; on the phonetics Schwyzer 266 a. 314, on the <b class="b2">u̯o-</b>suffix ibd. 472 and Chantraine Form. 122f. Substantivized is <b class="b3">λαίβα</b> (= <b class="b3">λαίϜα</b>) <b class="b3">ἀσπίς</b>, <b class="b3">πέλτη</b> H.; prop. "what is worn in the left"(?). Here also Illyr. PN [[Laevicus]], [[Levo]] (Krahe Spr. d. Illyr. 1, 55). - Hypothesis on a basic meaning [[crooked]] and further suggestions for connections, all quite hypothetic or arbitrary, in WP. 2, 378 f., W.-Hofmann s. [[laevus]]; also Huisman KZ 71, 104 (to <b class="b3">λαιμός</b>, <b class="b3">λαῖτμα</b>; IE. <b class="b2">*lei-</b> [[towards below]], [[askew]], but this is phonetically impossible). On spread and use of <b class="b3">λαιός</b>, <b class="b3">σκαιός</b>, <b class="b3">ἀριστερός</b> Chantraine <b class="b3">Μνήμης χάριν</b> 1, 61 ff. - Fur. 339 compares <b class="b3">λαφός ὁ ἀριστερᾳ̃ χειρὶ χρώμενος Η</b>.; but Lat. laevus can hardly be separated from the word.<br />2.<br />Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">a kind of thrush, `Petrocichla (cyanus, saxatilis)</b>.<br />Origin: GR [a formation built with Greek elements]X [probably]<br />Etymology: Perh. from <b class="b3">λᾶας</b> [[stone]], cf. NGr. <b class="b3">πετρο-κόσσυφος</b> [[thrush]]; see Thompson Birds s. v. -