ὄγμος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[furrow]] in ploughing, τοὶ δὲ στρέψασκον ἀν' ὄγμους <span class="bibl">Il.18.546</span>; πίονες ὄγμοι <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Cer.</span>455</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[swathe]] in reaping, ὥς τ' ἀμητῆρες ὄ. ἐλαύνωσιν <span class="bibl">Il.11.68</span>; δράγματα δ' ἄλλα μετ' ὄ. . . πῖπτον <span class="bibl">18.552</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">557</span>; ὄ. ἄγειν ὀρθόν <span class="bibl">Theoc.10.2</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[strip]] of cultivated land (written [[ὤγμος]]), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PFay.</span>120.7</span> (ii A.D.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">BGU</span>166.7</span> (ii A.D.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> metaph., <b class="b3">ὅ τε πλήθει μέγας ὄ</b>. [the moon's] vast [[orbit]] is accomplished, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Hom.</span> 32.11</span>; of the sun, <span class="bibl">Arat.749</span>; of a hippopotamus, παλίσσυτον ὄ. ἐλαύνων <span class="bibl">Nic.<span class="title">Th.</span>571</span>; <b class="b3">ὄ. κακῶν . . γήραος</b>, i.e. wrinkled old age, <span class="bibl">Archil. 116</span>; <b class="b3">ὄ. ὀδόντων</b> [[row]] of teeth, <span class="title">APl.</span>4.265, etc.</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">swath, line of scythed grass or grain</b>, also of the course of the moon and the sun etc., <b class="b2">strip of land, which is or ought to be scythed down or cultivated in another way</b>, also as field-measure (Il., pap. of the empire).<br />Derivatives: [[ἐπόγμιος]] [[presiding over the ὄγμος]], surn. of Demeter (AP); [[ὀγμεύω]] <b class="b2">to form an ὄ., to move in an ὄ.</b> (X. Cyr. 2, 4, 20 of the drivers; S. Ph. 163 of the wounded Philoktetes), <b class="b3">ἐπ-ογμεύω</b> ([[κύκλον]]) [[to move in circles]] (Tryph. 354); also [[Ὄγμιος]] N. of Herakles among the Celts (Luc. Herc. l) ?, s. Brandenstein Sprache 2, 182 w. lit.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [4] <b class="b2">*h₂eǵ-</b> [[drive]].<br />Etymology: Term of agriculture. As verbal noun to [[ἄγω]] (<b class="b3">ὄγμον ἄγειν</b> Theoc. 10, 2) [[ὄγμος]] can be identical with Skt. (Ved.) <b class="b2">ájma-</b> m. [[trajectory]], [[draught]]; parallel innovation (with [[ο]] after [[οἶμος]], [[πότμος]] a.o.?) is possible. Extensively on the already in antiquity debated meaning and the etymolog (with criticism of older views) Kalén Apophoreta Gotoburgensia Vilelmo Lundström oblata (1936) 389 ff., who a.o. points to NHG dial. [[Jahn]], Swed. dial. <b class="b2">ån</b> <b class="b2">swath etc.</b> (= Skt. <b class="b2">yā́-na-</b> n. [[walk]] to <b class="b2">yā́-ti</b> [[go]]) as striking semantic parallel. To be rejected Benveniste Hitt. et i.-eur. 107f.: from <b class="b3">*ὄκμος</b> to Hitt. <b class="b2">akkala-</b> [[furrow]].