ὄρρος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[rump]], [[arse]] (Ar.), [[end of the os sacrum]] (Gal.).<br />Compounds: As 1. member in <b class="b3">ὀρρο-πύγ-ιον</b>, Ion. <b class="b3">ὀρσο-</b>, s. [[πυγή]]. As 2. member in <b class="b3">παλίν-ορσος</b> [[moving back]] (Γ 33, Emp.; <b class="b3">-ρρ-</b> Ar. Ach. 1179), s. Wackernagel Unt. 226; prob. also in [[ἄψορρος]], s. v.<br />Derivatives: [[ὀρρώδης]] [[belonging to the rump]] (Hp., Gal.), <b class="b3">ὀρροχμόν ἔσχατον</b>, [[ἄκρον]] H., after <b class="b3">νεο-χμός</b>(?), s.v. and Belardi Doxa 3, 216f. w. lit. (wrong Specht KZ 66, 199f.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [340] <b class="b2">*h₁ers-</b>, <b class="b2">*h₁ors-</b> [[hindmost]]<br />Etymology: Old inherited expression for [[hindmost]], which was avoided by the epic for its status (Wackernagel Unt. 224 ff.), identical with Germ., e.g. OHG [[ars]] [[Arsch]]', Arm. <b class="b2">oṙ</b>, pl. <b class="b2">oṙ-k`</b> (<b class="b2">i-</b>st.): IE <b class="b2">*ors-o-</b>, <b class="b2">*ors-i-</b>; besides OIr. [[err]] [[tail]] < <b class="b2">*h₁ersā</b>. Phönetically unclear is Hitt. [[arraš]] [[hindmost]]; uncertain hypothesis by Neumann KZ 77, 79ff. (w. lit.). Against [[ὄρρος]] from <b class="b3">*ὄρσος</b> Forbes Glotta 36, 264ff. -- The word can be understood as enlargement of an <b class="b2">s-</b>stem <b class="b2">*or(o)s-</b>, <b class="b2">*er(o)s-</b> [[elevation]] and can then belong closely together with [[ὄρος]] [[mountain]] (s.v.). Further lit. in Bq, WP. 1, 138, Pok. 340. -- Cf. [[ὀρσοθύρη]] and [[οὑρά]].