ἄργυρος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[silver]] (Il.).<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[akuro]] \/[[arguros]]\/.<br />Compounds: As first member, e.g. <b class="b3">ἀργυρό-πεζα</b> (Il.), of Thetis etc. (acc. to Pisani Rev. ét. anc. 37, 145ff. [[with a foot of siver]] like Celt. [[Ἀργεντόκοξος]].<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [64[ <b class="b2">*h₂erg̀-</b> [[white]]<br />Etymology: [[ἄργυρος]] from an u-stem, seen in [[ἄργυφος]] ([[quod vide|q.v.]]) and in Skt. <b class="b2">árju-na-</b> [[white]], [[light]], Lat. [[argū-tus]] etc.; cf. also Messap. [[argorian]] (: [[ἀργύριον]]), Krahe Sprache 1, 39. Other languages have an <b class="b2">n-</b>stem, Lat. [[argentum]], Av. [[ǝrǝzatǝm]] and Skt. <b class="b2">rajatám</b> < <b class="b2">*h₂rǵn-to-</b>, Gaul. <b class="b2">arganto-(magus</b>) (difficult Arm. [[arcat]] (like [[erkat]] [[iron]])). On silver s. EIEC.