λαιός: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=1.<br />Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[left]], <b class="b3">ἡ λαιά</b> <b class="b2">the left (hand)</b> (Tyrt., A.);<br />Derivatives: Diminut. (context unknown) <b class="b3">λαίδιον ἀριστερόν</b>, [[εὑώνυμον]] H.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [652] <b class="b2">*leh₂iu̯o-</b> [[left]]<br />Etymology: Old word for [[left]], identical with Lat. [[laevus]], Slav., e. g. OCS <b class="b2">lěvъ</b>, Russ. <b class="b2">lévyj</b> ; IE. <b class="b2">*lai̯u̯os = *leh₂i-uo-?</b>; on the phonetics Schwyzer 266 a. 314, on the <b class="b2">u̯o-</b>suffix ibd. 472 and Chantraine Form. 122f. Substantivized is [[λαίβα]] (= [[λαίϜα]]) [[ἀσπίς]], [[πέλτη]] H.; prop. "what is worn in the left"(?). Here also Illyr. PN [[Laevicus]], [[Levo]] (Krahe Spr. d. Illyr. 1, 55). - Hypothesis on a basic meaning [[crooked]] and further suggestions for connections, all quite hypothetic or arbitrary, in WP. 2, 378 f., W.-Hofmann s. [[laevus]]; also Huisman KZ 71, 104 (to [[λαιμός]], [[λαῖτμα]]; IE. <b class="b2">*lei-</b> [[towards below]], [[askew]], but this is phonetically impossible). On spread and use of [[λαιός]], [[σκαιός]], [[ἀριστερός]] Chantraine <b class="b3">Μνήμης χάριν</b> 1, 61 ff. - Fur. 339 compares <b class="b3">λαφός ὁ ἀριστερᾳ̃ χειρὶ χρώμενος Η</b>.; but Lat. laevus can hardly be separated from the word.<br />2.<br />Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">a kind of thrush, `Petrocichla (cyanus, saxatilis)</b>.<br />Origin: GR [a formation built with Greek elements]X [probably]<br />Etymology: Perh. from [[λᾶας]] [[stone]], cf. NGr. <b class="b3">πετρο-κόσσυφος</b> [[thrush]]; see Thompson Birds s. v. -