σαθρός: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[unsound]], [[broken]], [[broke]], [[unhealthy]], [[weak]] (IA.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">σαθρ-ότης</b> f. [[unsoundness]] (late), <b class="b3">-όομαι</b>, <b class="b3">-όω</b> [[to be]], [[to make unsound]] (LXX, pap. VIp) with <b class="b3">-ωσις</b>, <b class="b3">-ωμα</b> (pap. VIp, H.); <b class="b3">σάθραξ φθείρ</b> H.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Unexplained. By Fick (s. Bq) compared with [[ψαθυρός]] [[brittle]] (to [[ψῆν]]); Chantraine Form. 224 a. 373 thinks of [[σήθω]] (rejected by Benveniste Origines 202). Perh. cross of [[σαπρός]] with an unknown word? -- From there with metathesis NGr. [[θράσιον]], [[θράσο]] [[meat of animals that have died]] (Hatzidakis Glotta 2, 299). -- Furnée 196 also compares [[ψαθυρός]], <b class="b3">ψαιδρά ἁραιότριχα</b> H. and concludes that the word is Pre-Greek.