ἄρσην: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=-ενος<br />Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[male]] (Il.).<br />Dialectal forms: Att. [[ἄρρην]], Ion., Lesb., Cret. [[ἔρσην]], Lac. [[ἄρσης]]<br />Derivatives: <b class="b2">Compar.</b> [[ἀρρέντερος]] [[male]] (Arc.), [[ἐρσεναίτερος]] (El.), after [[θηλύτερος]]?<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [81] <b class="b2">*uers-</b> [[male]]?<br />Etymology: With [[ἔρσην]] cf. Av. OPers. <b class="b2">aršan-</b> [[man]], [[male]]; [[ἄρσην]], [[ἄρρην]] will have zero grade, and is compared with Skt. <b class="b2">r̥ṣa-bhá-</b> [[bull]]. Doubtful is the connection with Skt. <b class="b2">árṣati</b> [[flow]]. Further there is Skt. <b class="b2">vŕ̥ṣan-</b> (to <b class="b2">várṣati</b> [[rain]]? s. on [[ἔρση]], [[οὑρανός]], [[οὑρέω]]); cf. Benveniste BSL 45, 100ff. - The difficulty is that an IE root cannot have vocalic anlaut; and [[h₁]] would have given <b class="b3">ἐ-</b> throughout, and [[h₂]] <b class="b3">ἀ-</b>. Therefore the word must have had <b class="b3">Ϝ-</b>; thus Peters, Lar. 9f. - Cf. [[ἀρνειός]], [[ἀρνευτήρ]].