σκόλοψ: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=-οπος<br />Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[pointed pole]], [[palisade]], [[prickle]] (ep. ion. poet. Il., hell. a. late prose; Att. [[χάραξ]], [[σταυρός]], <b class="b3">-ωμα</b>).<br />Other forms: Also <b class="b3">σκόλοφρον θρανίον</b> H. (after [[δίφρος]]?); cf. [[σκόλυθρον]].<br />Derivatives: Dimin. <b class="b3">σκολόπ-ιον</b> n. (Antyll. ap. Orib.), <b class="b3">-ηὶς μοῖρα</b> [[the destiny of being impaled]] (Man.; after <b class="b3">βασιλ-ηΐς</b> a.o.); <b class="b3">-ίζω</b> <b class="b2">provide with σ.</b> (Stad.) wit <b class="b3">-ισμός</b> m. [[the impaling]], [[the spearing]] (Vett. Val.); often with <b class="b3">ἀνα-</b> <b class="b2">to stick on a pole, to impale</b> (Hdt. a. o.) with <b class="b3">-ισις</b> f. (sch., Eust.), [[ἀπο]] σκόλοψ [[to remove the poles]] (Aq.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Finally to the great family of [[σκάλλω]] (s. v.). As the labial can belong to the stem, [[σκόλοψ]] can first be connected with Lat. [[scalpō]] <b class="b2">scratch, cut with a sharp instrument etc.</b>; to this may be joined several words with varying meaning, partly also with varying form, e.g. OHG [[scelifa]] [[membranous shell]], Lith. <b class="b2">sklem̃pti</b>, <b class="b2">sklem̃bti</b> <b class="b2">plane smooth, cut oblique, sprinkle</b> etc., s. Bq s. [[σκάλοψ]], WP. 2, 595, Pok. 926, W.-Hofmann s. [[scalpō]]. The dissillabicity of [[σκόλοψ]] is rather due to adaptation to the nouns in <b class="b3">-οψ</b> (a sequence <b class="b3">*-ολψ</b> or <b class="b3">*-ορψ</b> is unknown in Greek) than with Bechtel Lex. s. v. to a disyllabic root form [?] -- Beside [[σκόλοψ]] stands in quite different meaning [[σκάλοψ]], <b class="b3">-οπος</b> m. [[mole]] (Ar. Ach. 879; also Cratin. 93 [<b class="b3">-ωψ</b>]) with [[σκαλοπία]] f. [[mole-track]] (Thphr. HP 7, 12, 3; tradit.. <b class="b3">σκολ-</b>, s. Scheller Oxytonierung 47 f.), clearly from [[σκάλλω]] with the in animal-names usual <b class="b3">οπ-</b>suffix (final); we may have to do with a folketym. justification of untransparent [[σπάλαξ]] (s. [[ἀσπάλαξ]] with a quite hypothetic etym.); s. Grégoire Byzantion 32, 32ff. -- As the variant with <b class="b3">-φρ-</b> shows, we have to do with a Pre-Greek word (influence of [[δίφρος]] is far-fatched); cf. Furnée 107. Words for [[pole]] etc. are often taken over from a substrate language. (Not in Furnée.)