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|etymtx=τριχός<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[hair]] in gen., esp. the natural hair as opposed to the well-cared head-hair, [[κόμη]] (Il.).<br />Compounds: Compp., e. g. <b class="b3">τριχό-φυλλος</b> [[with leaves like hair]] (Thphr., of a pine-forest), <b class="b3">οὑλό-θριξ</b> [[with krausem Haar]] (Hdt. usw.).<br />Derivatives: 1. [[θρίσσα]], Att. [[θρίττα]] f. (< <b class="b3">*θρίχ-ι̯α</b>) kind of anchovy, [[Clupea alosa]] (middl. Com., Arist., after the hairlike bones, Strömberg Fischnamen 47f.; also Thompson Fishes s. v.; from there Ital.-Lomb. [[trissa]] a. o.?; s. Pok. 276); dimin. [[θρισσίον]] (pap.); in the same meaning also [[τριχίς]], <b class="b3">-ίδος</b> f. (Ar.), [[τριχίδιον]] (Alex.), [[τριχίας]] m. (Arist.). 2. Dimin. [[τρίχιον]] (Arist.). 3. [[τριχώδης]] [[full of hair]], [[hairlike]] (Hp., Arist.). 4. [[τριχωτός]] [[hairy]] (Arist.; cf. [[τριχόομαι]] below). 5. [[τρίχινος]] [[of hair]] (Pl., X.). 6. [[τριχῖτις]], <b class="b3">-ιδος</b> f. sort of alum (after the fibrous nature; Dsc., Plin.; Redard Les noms grecs en <b class="b3">-της</b> 62). 7. [[τριχία]] [[knot]] (pap.). 8. [[τριχισμός]] [[hairfine split of a bone]] (Paul. Aeg.), as if from <b class="b3">*τριχίζω</b>; cf. Chantraine Formation 143ff. Denomin. verbs. 1. [[τριχόομαι]], <b class="b3">-όω</b> [[be provided with hairs]] (Arist.); from there [[τρίχωμα]] <b class="b2">hair(growth)</b> (Hdt., E., X.) with [[τριχωμάτιον]] (Arist.); [[τρίχωσις]] [[hairgrowth]] (Arist.); cf. also [[τριχωτός]] above. 2. [[τριχιάω]] [[suffer from a hairdisease]] (Hp., Arist.) with [[τριχίασις]] name of some hairdiseases (medic.). 3. <b class="b3">*τριχίζω</b> cf. [[τριχισμός]] above.<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: As the designations of hair differ from language to language (s. Buck Synonyms 203f., Ernout-Meillet s. [[capillus]]), we do not expect a cognate in other languages. So the comparison with MIr. [[gairb-driuch]] [[bristle]] (from [[garb]] [[raw]] and <b class="b2">*drigu-</b> or <b class="b2">*driku-</b>, Fick 2, 156) can better be disregarded. On Lith. <b class="b2">drikà</b> <b class="b2">threads hanging from the weaving-loom</b> s. Fraenkel Lit. et. Wb. s. <b class="b2">draĩkas</b> [[long-drawn]].