κέραμος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">potters earth, tiling, earthen vessel, jar, wine-jar, pottery</b> (Il.), Ε 387 (subterranean) dungeon, Cyprian acc. sch., but see Leumann Hom. Wörter 270 n. 17 and 273 (cf. Latte Glotta 34, 200ff. with arguments against, also <b class="b3">σιρός πίθος</b>, [[δεσμωτήριον]] H. (s. Bechtel Dial. 1, 450).<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[kerameu]]<br />Compounds: Compp., e. g. [[κεραμουργός]] [[potter]] (hell.).<br />Derivatives: A. material adjectives: <b class="b3">κερά-μινος</b> (Hdt.), <b class="b3">-μικός</b> (IA), <b class="b3">-μεος</b> (Pl.), <b class="b3">-μεοῦς</b> (Att.; after [[ἐρεοῦς]] from [[ἐρέα]]), <b class="b3">-μοῦς</b> (hell.), <b class="b3">-μαῖος</b> (Plb.), <b class="b3">-μιος</b> (Str.), <b class="b3">-μήϊος</b> (Nic.), <b class="b3">-μῖτις</b> (Hp., Plu.; Redard Les noms grecs en <b class="b3">-της</b> 107). - B. Subst. 1. [[κεραμεύς]] [[potter]] (Il.) with [[Κεραμεικός]] m. "potter's market", also as adj. = <b class="b3">-μικός</b> (X.), [[κεραμευτικός]] [[belonging to the potter]] (D. S.), [[κεραμεῖον]] [[pottery]] (Att.), [[κεραμεύω]] <b class="b2">make of potters earth, be potter</b> (Att.) with [[κεραμεία]] [[pottery]] (Pl.). 2. [[κεράμιον]] [[earthen jar]], [[vase]] (IA) with [[κεραμύλλιον]] [[small pot]] (Delos, pap., IIIa; Leumann Glotta 32, 215). 3. [[κεραμίς]] f. [[roof-tile]] (IA) with [[κεραμίδιον]] (late) and [[κεραμιδόω]] [[cover with tiles]] (Arist.). 4. <b class="b3">κεραμ(ε)ών</b> [[pottery]] (Ar. Lys. 200, Hdn. Gr. 1, 32; 40). - Denomin. verb [[κεραμόω]] [[cover with tiles]] (Att. inscr.) with [[κεραμωτός]] (Plb., Str.), [[κεράμωσις]] (Epid. IVa).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: No certain etym. The connection with <b class="b3">κερά-σαι</b>, [[κεράννυμι]] (Prellwitz) is formally unproblematic, but semantically not quite convincing. Direct connection with Lat. [[cremāre]] as "terra coctilis" (Vaniček) is formally hard to found; we would like better a verb <b class="b2">*kerH-</b> [[burn]], [[heat]], [[glow]] (Pokorny 571f.), which has been assumed in several Baltic and Germanic nominal derivations, e. g. Lith. <b class="b2">kárštas</b> [[hot]], [[glowing]], [[burning]], Goth. <b class="b2">haúri</b> n. [[coals]], OHG [[herd]] [[hearth]]; one adduced also Skt. <b class="b2">kūḍayati</b> [[singe]], [[burn]]; impossible is Lith. <b class="b2">kùrti</b> [[fire]], [[heat]], as it is prop. [[make fire]], s. Fraenkel Lit. et. Wb. s. v. As however among the words in -(<b class="b3">α)μο-</b> there are several suspect of being loans (Chantraine Formation 133f., Schwyzer 493f.), is for this technical term for tile-making also Pre-Greek-Anatolian origin possible; not the Carian GN [[Κέραμος]] (Kretschmer Glotta 11, 284, Schrader-Nehring Reallex. 2, 694). On a proto-Hattic term s. Laroche BSL 51, p. XXXIV.