δολιχός: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[long]] (Il.).<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. PN [[dorikao]] \/[[Dolikhaon]]\/, [[dorikano]] \/[[Dolikhanor]]\/.<br />Compounds: Often as first member of compounds; note <b class="b3">δολιχό-σκιος</b> of [[ἔγχος]] (Hom.), [[with a long shadow]].<br />Derivatives: With regular accent change (Schwyzer 420) [[δόλιχος]] m. [[the long course]], (Att. etc.) with [[δολιχεύω]] [[run a long course]], [[δολιχεύς]] [[long course runner]] (Sparta IIp); on [[δόλιχος]] as plant name (Thphr.) s. Strömberg Theophrastea 107 n. 1, Pflanzennamen 24. Lengthened poet. form with metrical lengthening [[δουλιχόεις]] (AP); PlN [[Δολιχίστη]] island before Lycia, prop. superlative, and [[Δουλίχιον]] island in the Ionic Sea (Hom.), cf. Seiler Steigerungsformen 101.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [196] <b class="b2">*d(e)lh₁gʰó-</b> [[long]]<br />Etymology: Old IE word for [[long]], in: Skt. <b class="b2">dīrghá-</b>, Av. <b class="b2">darǝγa-</b>, OCS [[dlъgъ]], Serb. <b class="b2">dȕg</b>, Lith. (with unexplained loss of <b class="b2">d-</b>) <b class="b2">ìlgas</b>, Hitt. <b class="b2">dalugi-</b>. From <b class="b2">*dl̥H-gho-</b>; <b class="b3">δολιχ-</b> (and <b class="b2">dalug-</b>) have unexplained vowel (s. Schwyzer 278, Specht Ursprung 126, Locker Glotta 22, 59, Kronasser Vgl. Laut- und Formenlehre des Heth. 42). Here also Lat. [[indulgeō]] [[be kind]], [[indulgent]] and Germ., e. g. Goth. [[tulgus]] [[fest]], [[steadfast]] are connected, as well as Alb. <b class="b2">glatë</b>, <b class="b2">gjatë</b> [[long]] (with sec. <b class="b2">-të</b>?). - To [[δολιχός]] belongs [[ἐνδελεχής]] [[continuous]] (Att. etc.) with [[ἐνδελέχεια]], [[ἐνδελεχέω]], <b class="b3">-ίζω</b>, <b class="b3">-ισμός</b> (like <b class="b3">ἐν-τελής</b>, <b class="b3">ἐμ-μελής</b> etc.). - Another word for [[long]] in westeuropean languages with Lat. [[longūs]], Goth. [[laggs]] etc. A supposed <b class="b2">*dlongo-</b> cannot bridge the difference, in spite of MPers. [[drang]], NPers. [[dirang]]. See Porzig Gliederung 123f., 190f.