ἄκος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: [[cure]], [[remedy]] (Il.).<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[aketirijai]] \/[[akestriai]]\/ (not <b class="b2">*akestriai</b>, [[agetriai]]). [[aketere]], [[jaketere]] \/[[jakesteres]]\/<b class="b2">?</b><br />Compounds: <b class="b3">ἀφ-</b>, <b class="b3">ἐφ-ακέομαι</b><br />Derivatives: Denomin. verb [[ἀκέομαι]] <b class="b2">cure; repair</b> (Il.). [[ἀκέσματα]] [[remedy]] (Il.); [[ἄκεσις]] [[healing]] (Hdt.); [[ἀκέστωρ]] epithet of Apollon (E.). Also [[ἀκή]] [[healing]] (Hp.), prob. from [[ἀκέομαι]]. [[νήκεστος]] Hes. (beside [[ἀνά]]\/[[ήκεστος]]) seems from <b class="b2">*n-h₂k-</b>, but may be analogical. PN [[Ἐξηκίας]] (Attica; Pailler, Lettre de Pallas 4, 1996, 8).<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Et. unknown. Connection with OIr. <b class="b2">hícc</b> [[healing]] has been suggested, but its relation to MW [[iach]] [[healthy]] is uncertain (Schrijver 1991 [StudBrPhon]103). DELG's <b class="b2">*iek-\/iǝk-</b> is impossible: <b class="b2">eh₁\/h₁</b> would give <b class="b3">*εκ-</b>. The compounds with <b class="b3">ἀφ-</b> etc. seem to point to original aspiration. An original <b class="b2">*ih₂k-</b> seems possible. Improbable Pisani Sprache 12, 1966, 91f. (to Skt. <b class="b2">yáśas-</b> n. [[fame]], Arm. [[asem]] [[say]]). Hitt. [[saktaizzi]] [[cure a sick]] seems impossible, because the s- does not disappear.