ἔχις: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[<span class="bibl">Nic. <span class="title">Th.</span>223</span>, -ῑς metri gr. <span class="title">IG</span>2.1660], εως, ὁ (ἡ <span class="bibl">Opp.<span class="title">C.</span>3.439</span>), gen. pl. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> ἔχεων <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Euthd.</span>290a</span>: gen. sg. ἔχιος <span class="bibl">Nic.<span class="title">Th.</span>130</span>: pl., dat. [[ἐχίεσσι]] ib.<span class="bibl">826</span>; gen. [[ἐχίων]] ib.<span class="bibl">653</span>; acc. [[ἔχιας]] ib.<span class="bibl">9</span>, but ἔχεις <span class="bibl">Thphr. <span class="title">Char.</span>1.7</span>:—[[viper]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Smp.</span>217e</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>511a16</span>, etc.: metaph., συκοφάντης καὶ ἔ. τὴν φύσιν <span class="bibl">D.25.96</span>; <b class="b3">ὥσπερ ἔ. ἢ σκορπίος ἠρκὼς τὸ κέντρον</b> ib.52; cf. [[ἔχιδνα]]. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> = [[ἔχιον]] 11, <span class="bibl">Nic.<span class="title">Th.</span>541</span>, <span class="bibl">636</span>, <span class="bibl">Plin. <span class="title">HN</span>22.50</span>.</span>

|etymtx=-εως</b> of toch PG [Pre-Greek]?<br />Grammatical information: m. (f.)<br />Meaning: [[viper]] (Att.).<br />Derivatives: Dimin. [[ἐχίδιον]] (Arist.) and the plant-name [[ἔχιον]] (Dsc.; because of the resemblance of the fruit with the head of a snake, Strömberg Pflanzennamen 54), [[ἐχίειον]] (Nic.); further [[ἐχιῆες]] pl. = [[ἔχεις]] (Nic. Th. 133, only metrical variant?; cf. also Boßhardt 148); [[ἐχῖτις]] f. name of a stone (Plin., after the colour; cf. Redard Les noms grecs en <b class="b3">-της</b> 54). - Fem. [[ἔχιδνα]] [[viper]] (Ion.-Att., Hes. Th. 297), mostly thought to be a <b class="b3">ια-</b>deriv. from <b class="b3">*ἐχιδνός</b> (Schwyzer 475; see Specht Ursprung 229 and 377), with <b class="b3">ἐχιδν-αῖος</b> and <b class="b3">-ήεις</b> (hell.); this is not very probable, however; <b class="b3">-δνα</b> is a typical Pre-Greek suffix; it must have been a loan from Pre-Greek.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [292] <b class="b2">*h₁eǵhi-</b> [[snake]] (sic; wrong Pok.)<br />Etymology: If the interpretation of [[ἐχῖνος]] is correct, [[ἔχις]] must have a palatal <b class="b2">ǵh</b>. The comparable words for [[snake]], Skt. <b class="b2">áhi-</b> = Av. <b class="b2">aži-</b> like Arm. [[iž]], nust then be connected with [[ὄφις]]. Also Welsh [[euod]] [[Schafwürmer]], [[euon]] [[Pferdewurmer]] may belong to [[ὄφις]] (Pedersen Vergl. Gramm. 1, 99, Lewis-Pedersen 29, Pok. 44. - Cf. also [[ἔγχελυς]].