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|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: 1. [[fine flour]], [[flour dust]] (Ar. Nu. 262, Apollon. Med.), 2. [[shrewd person]], [[crafty person]] (Ar. Nu. 260).<br />Compounds: Compp. : 1. <b class="b3">δυσ-παίπαλος</b> adjunct of [[βῆσσα]] (Archil.), [[κύματα]] (B.), [[Ὄθρυς]] (Nic.) a.o.; 2. <b class="b3">δυσοδο-παίπαλα</b> n. pl. (A. Eu. 387, reading uncertain; after sch. <b class="b3">δυσπαράβατα καὶ τραχέα</b>; 3. <b class="b3">πολυ-παίπαλος</b>, of [[Φοίνικες]] (ο 419), of [[αἰθήρ]] (Call. Fr. [[anon]]. 225).<br />Derivatives: Beside it several formally close, but semantically doubtful fomations. Adj. 1. <b class="b3">παιπαλ-όεις</b> of islands, mountains, roads (ep. Il.); 2. <b class="b3">-ιμος</b> [[artful]], [[shrewd]] (Theognost., sch.); 3. <b class="b3">-ώδης</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (EM, Suid.); 4. <b class="b3">-εος</b> of [[πιπώ]] [[woodpecker]] (Antim.), meaning unknown. Verbs. 1. <b class="b3">παιπαλᾶν περισκοπεῖν</b>, [[ἐρευνᾶν]] H., with formally [[παιπάλημα]] n. (Ar., Aeschin.) = 2. [[παιπάλη]]; prob just enlargement of it; 2. <b class="b3">παιπάλλειν σείειν</b> H.; 3. <b class="b3">παιπαλώσσω τὸ παίζω καὶ τὸ παροινῶ</b> (Theognost.). <b class="b3">παίπαλά τε κρημνούς τε</b> (Call. Dian. 194), prob. backformation.<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: The adj. [[παιπαλόεις]], of which the orig. meaning was apparently early forgotten and which was used by the ep. poets as [[epithet]] ornans without specific meaning, is mostly explained as [[τραχύς]], [[σκολιώδης]]', i.e. [[raw]], [[steep]] or [[twisted]]; so <b class="b3">δυσ-παίπαλος</b> [[with dangerous παίπαλα]]. Starting from [[winding]] Fick KZ 44, 148 f. (agreeing Bechtel Lex. s.v.) wanted to connect a supposed root <b class="b2">pele-</b> [[wind]] [impossible root form], also [[fold]]; [[παιπαλόεις]] thus [[rich in turns or folds]] (cf. <b class="b3">πολύ-πτυχος</b>), <b class="b3">πολυ-παίπαλος</b> = <b class="b3">πολύ-τροπος</b> (in antiquity). Positing a root <b class="b2">pele-</b> meaning [[turn]] however, is based on a wrong analysis of [[πόλος]], [[πάλιν]] (s. rather [[πέλομαι]]); so only the meaning [[fold]] remains (s. [[ἁπλόος]]). Similarly Worms Herm. 81, 31 n. 2: prop. [[geschwungen]], [[gewunden]], to [[πάλλω]], from where <b class="b2">zackig, sich schlangelnd, zerklüftet</b>(?). With this interpretation of [[παιπαλόεις]] one separates [[παιπάλη]] from it and connects it as a separate word to [[πάλη]] [[flour]] (s.v.) and [[πόλτος]] etc. -- Others connect [[παιπαλόεις]] as [[floury]], [[dusty]] (first of roads) with [[παιπάλη]]; s. Leumann Hom. Wörter 236 ff. with extensive argumentation and rich lit. He considers [[παιπάλη]] [[subtle talker]] not as metapher of [[παιπάλη]] [[fine flour]] but explains it from <b class="b3">πολυ-παίπαλος</b>. -- Still diff. Palmer Glotta 27, 134 ff. (by Leumann rightly rejected). The origin of [[παιπάλη]] L. sees in [[παιπάλλειν]] = [[σείειν]] ('shake' = [[sieve flour]]); also [[πάλη]] [[flour]] from [[πάλλω]]. Cf. [[πασπάλη]]. -- On the reduplication cf. Skoda, Redoublement 33 etc.