ἐσχάρα: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">hearth, house-, sacrificing hearth</b> (Il.), metaph. [[platform]], [[stand]] (Ph. Bel. u. a.), in medicin. language [[scab]], [[eschar on a wound by burning]] (Hp., Arist.).<br />Other forms: Ion. <b class="b3">-ρη</b><br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[ekara]].<br />Derivatives: [[ἐσχαρίς]], <b class="b3">-ίδος</b> [[pan of coals]], [[brazier]] (Com., Plu.) with <b class="b3">-ίδιον</b> (Delos IIIa), [[ἐσχάριον]] <b class="b2">id.</b> (Ar.), also [[platform]], [[stand]] (Plb.) beside [[ἐσχαρεῖον]] <b class="b2">id.</b> (Attica); <b class="b3">ἐσχαρ(ε)ών</b> [[hearth place]] (Delos IVa, Theoc.; after the place indications in -(<b class="b3">ε)ών</b>, Chantraine Formation 164); [[ἐσχαρεύς]] [[ships cook]] (Poll.; vgl. Boßhardt Die Nom. auf <b class="b3">-ευς</b> 83); [[ἐσχαρίτης]] ([[ἄρτος]]) [[bread baked over the fire]] (Com., LXX; s. Redard Les noms grecs en <b class="b3">-της</b> 89). [[ἐσχάριος]] [[belonging to the hearth]] (AP). Unclear [[ἐσχάρινθον]] name of a dance in Sparta (Poll.) As medicinal t. term basis of the denomin. [[ἐσχαρόομαι]] <b class="b2">form an ἐσχάρα (eschar)</b> with [[ἐσχάρωσις]], <b class="b3">-ωμα</b>, <b class="b3">-ωτικός</b>; in the same sphere also [[ἐσχαρώδης]] (Poll., Gal.). - To [[ἔσχαρος]] fish-name s. v.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Formation in <b class="b3">-ρα</b> (like [[χώρα]], [[τέφρα]]), but without cognate. Prellwitz connected OCS [[iskra]] [[spark]] (with [[ἑστία]], Solmsen Unt. 218), what Vasmer Russ. et. Wb. s. v. rejects. Other unconvincing attempts in Bq, in W.-Hofmann s. [[cartibulum]] and in Deroy Revue Belge de phil. 26, 529ff. - Furnée 376 points out that [[σχάρα]] (Gloss.) may have lost the first vowel secondarily. As there is no cognate and as an IE protoform can hardly be posited, the word will be Pre-Greek.