ὀμίχλη: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[fog]] (Il., A., Ar., X.);<br />Other forms: (Att. <b class="b3">ὁ-</b> w. sec. asp., cf. Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 187).<br />Compounds: <b class="b3">ἀν-όμιχλος</b> [[without fog]] (Arist.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">ὀμιχλ-ώδης</b> [[hazy]] (hell.), <b class="b3">-ήεις</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Nonn.). <b class="b3">-όομαι</b> (hell.), <b class="b3">-αίνω</b> (Lyd.) [[to become vapour]].<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [712] <b class="b2">*h₃migh-la</b> [[fog]]<br />Etymology: Identical with a Balto-Slav. word for [[fog]], e.g. Lith. <b class="b2">miglà</b>, OCS [[mъgla]] f., IE <b class="b2">*mighlā</b> (<b class="b3">ὀ-</b> prothet., suffix as in [[νεφέλη]]); beside this old <b class="b2">l-</b>formation (to which also Dutch dial. [[miggelen]] [[missle]]) stands partly a zero grade rootnoun in Skt. <b class="b2">mih-</b> f. [[fog]], partly a fullgrade <b class="b2">o-</b>stem, e.g. Skt. <b class="b2">meghá-</b> m. [[cloud]]; IE <b class="b2">*migh-</b> resp. <b class="b2">*moigho-</b>. More forms in WP. 2, 247, Pok. 712, Fraenkel s. <b class="b2">miglà</b>, Vasmer s. <b class="b2">mglá</b>; see also Porzig Gliederung 161 a. 169 f. -- To be kept separate [[ὀμείχω]] [[irinate]] a. cogn. (IE <b class="b2">*h₃meiǵh-</b>, with palatal). On [[ἀμιχθαλόεσσα]] s.v. (also Ruijgh L'élém. ach. 145).