γυνή: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=γυναικός<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[wife]], [[woman]] (Il.),<br />Other forms: Boeot. [[βανά]] (Corinn.), pl. <b class="b3">βανῆκας γυναῖκας</b> H.; Cypr. <b class="b3">*βονα</b> does not exist (Masson, Inscr, chypr. 1961, 298). Voc. [[γύναι]] from <b class="b3">*γυναικ</b>, see Schwyzer 582f. The stem <b class="b3">γυν-αικ-</b> prob. from adj. <b class="b2">*gʷneh₂-iko-</b> (Szemerényi, AION 2 (1960) 13-30; against Lejeune, Rev. ét. anc. 63 (1961) 435).<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[kunaja]] /[[gunai-a]]/.<br />Compounds: On the forms of [[γυνή]] as second member <b class="b3">ἄ- ἀνδρό- κατά- μισό- φιλόγυνος</b>, <b class="b3">ἀ- ἡμι- καλλι- ὀρσι- φιλογύναιξ</b>, [[ἀγύναικος]], <b class="b3">ἀ- ἡμι- κακο- κατα- μισο- πολυ- φιλογύναιος</b>, <b class="b3">ἀ- ἀνδρο- μισο- νεο- πολυ- φιλογύνης</b> Sommer Nominalkomp. 62f. Exceptional <b class="b3">γύν-ανδρος</b> [[hermaphrodite]], and <b class="b3">γυναι-μανής</b> (Il.). Survey DELG.<br />Derivatives: Diminut. [[γυναικάριον]] (Diokl. Com.), [[γυναίκιον]] (Longos), <b class="b3">γυναικίσκιον παιδίσκιον</b> H. - [[γυναικίας]] m. [[womanish man]] (Eup.; as [[νεανίας]]); [[γυναικωνῖτις]] [[womens room]] (Lys.; s. Redard Les noms grecs en <b class="b3">-της</b> 110), rare [[γυναικών]] (X., as [[ἀνδρών]]). - Adj. [[γυναικήϊος]], <b class="b3">-εῖος</b> (Od.; as [[ἀνδρήϊος]], <b class="b3">-εῖος</b>), [[γυναικικός]] (Arist.; as [[ἀνδρικός]]), [[γυναικώδης]] (Plb.: [[ἀνδρώδης]]), [[γυναικηρός]] (Diokl. Com.; after [[πονηρός]] etc.). - Denom. [[γυναικίζω]], <b class="b3">-ομαι</b> [[behave like a woman]] (Ion.-Att.) with [[γυναίκισις]] (Ar.) and [[γυναικισμός]] (Plb.); [[γυναικόομαι]], <b class="b3">-όω</b> [[be]], [[make womanish]] (Hp.). - Not from <b class="b3">γυναικ- γύννις</b>, <b class="b3">-ιδος</b> [[womanish man]] and [[γύναιος]] (cf. [[δείλαιος]]), [[γύναιον]] [[woman]].<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [473] <b class="b2">*gʷen-h₂</b> [[woman]]<br />Etymology: Old word for [[woman]], [[wife]]. Exact agreement in Skt. (Ved.) <b class="b2">gnā́</b> [[woman]], [[goddess]] (often disyll.), Av. [[gǝnā]] [[woman]]. With <b class="b3">γυναι-</b> agrees Arm. <b class="b2">kanay-</b> in plural [[kanay-k]] (nom.) etc.; a <b class="b3">-κ-</b> also in Messap. [[gunakhai]] [[γυναικί]] (?), and NPhr. [[knaikan]], [[knaiko]]. - Labiovelar also in Goth. [[qino]] (<b class="b2">n-</b>stem), OIr. [[ben]] (<b class="b2">ā-</b>stem) [[woman]], both < <b class="b2">*guen-</b>. The full grade, in Greek replaced by the zero grade, seen in Arm. [[kin]], OPr. [[genna]], OCS [[žena]], Skt. <b class="b2">jáni-</b>, Toch. A [[śäṃ]] B [[śana]], OIr. [[ben]]. Zero grade in OIr. <b class="b2">ban-</b> (in comp.), gen. sg. [[mnā]] (< <b class="b2">*bnā-s</b>). Lengthened grade in Goth. [[qens]] (<b class="b2">i-</b>stem) [[woman]]. Original paradigm proterodynmic <b class="b2">h₂-</b>stem [[gʷen-h₂]](seen in Skt. <b class="b2">jáni-</b>), gen. <b class="b2">*gʷn-eh₂-s</b>. - On [[μνάομαι]] [[woo for ones bride]] s.s.v.. - Full grade in [[βενέω]], variant of [[βινέω]] acc. to De Lamberterie, RPh 65 (1991) 149-160?