ἕκηλος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[careless]], [[at will]], [[quiet]],<br />Other forms: Dor. <b class="b3">ἕκαλος</b><br />Derivatives: Also <b class="b3">εὔκηλος</b>, <b class="b3">εὔκαλος</b> (Il.). From it <b class="b3">ἑκηλία φιλοτησία</b>, <b class="b3">εὑκαλία ἡσυχία</b>, <b class="b3">εὑκαλεῖ ἀτρεμίζει</b> H.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [1135] <b class="b2">*u̯eḱ-</b> [[will want]]<br />Etymology: Uncertain. Best with Buttmann Lexilogus 1, 141 as <b class="b3">*Ϝέκαλος</b> (= <b class="b3">γέκαλον ἥσυχον</b> H.; on the digamma also Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 129f.) to <b class="b3">*Ϝέκα</b> in <b class="b3">ἑκά-εργος</b> (s. v.) a. o. with suffixal <b class="b3">-αλος</b>, <b class="b3">-ηλος</b> (Chantr. Form. 241f., Schwyzer 484), so prop. "at will". <b class="b3">εὔκηλος</b> just after the many compounds with <b class="b3">εὑ-</b>; after it [[δύσκηλος]], s. v. - The semantically attractive connection with Skt. <b class="b2">úc-yati</b> [[find pleasure]], [[be used to]], <b class="b2">ókas-</b> n. [[usual stay]], [[house]] etc. (Persson Studien 7) does not explain the form <b class="b3">ἕκηλος</b>. - Wrong Bechtel Lex. s. v. - Fraenkel Lexis 3, 64ff. thinks <b class="b3">ἕκηλος</b> and <b class="b3">εὔκηλος</b> are two different words.