ἀλθαίνω: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=-ομαι<br />Grammatical information: v.<br />Meaning: [[become whole and sound]] (Hp.)<br />Other forms: [[ἄλθετο]] (Il.). Fut. [[ἀλθήσομαι]], <b class="b3">-σω</b> (Il.). <b class="b3">ἀλθεῖν ὑγιάζειν</b> (Hp. ap. Gal. 19, 76). <b class="b3">ἄλθα θερμασία η θεραπεία</b> H.; <b class="b3">ἄλθος φάρμακον</b> [[EM]]; <b class="b3">ἀλθεύς ἰατρός</b> H.; <b class="b3">ἀλθαίνει αὔξει</b>, [[θεραπεύει]], <b class="b3">ὑγιαίνει φάρμακον γὰρ ἄλθος</b> H.<br />Derivatives: The fut. [[ἀλθέξομαι]] (Aret.) perhaps formed after its opposite [[πυρέξομαι]] of [[πυρέσσω]] (but Chantr. comments: "l'hypothése reste en l'air"; cf. [[συναλθάσσομαι]]; [[ἄλθεξις]]. On these forms Van Brock, Vocab. médical 198 - 207 ("capricieuses formations", all late). [[ἀλθεστήρια]] [[medicine]] (Nic.), cf. [[χαριστήρια]], etc. (Chantr. Form. 63f.). - [[ἀλθαία]] plant name [[marsh mallow]], Thphr.; cf. Strömberg Pflanzennamen 81 (partly incorrect). On [[Ἄλθηπος]], also [[Ἄλθηφος]], Bechtel Hermes 56, 228 and the mythical name [[Ἀλθαία]], s. below.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [26] <b class="b2">*h₂el-</b> [[grow]]<br />Etymology: [[Ἀλθαίνω]] is connected with the root in [[ἄναλτος]] ([[quod vide|q.v.]]) (Schwyzer 703 β). Cf. [[ἀλδαίνω]]. Chantr. notes that the word is originally used of the growth of damaged tissue; he translates <b class="b3">ἄλθετο χείρ</b> with "le bras se guérit". - However, the meaning [[heal]] is not evidently connected with <b class="b3">ἀλ-</b> [[grow]], [[feed]]; the glosses give systematically the meaning [[heal]] etc.; [[θεραπεία]] means also [[medical or surgical treatment]]; [[θερμασία]] is less clear (false reading?); [[αὔξει]] also deviates (is it for [[ἀλδαίνω]]?). - The name [[Ἄλθηπ]]/[[φος]] is clearly Pre-Greek (cf. the river [[Αἴσηπος]]); so may be [[Ἀλθαία]] (the suffix <b class="b3">-αια</b>, <b class="b3">-εια</b> is also known in Pre-Greek); but we cannot be sure that the names belong to the verb. - An alternative etymology connects Skt. <b class="b2">r̥dhnóti</b> [[obtain luckily]], Rix MSS 27 (1970) 88 and Mayrhofer EWAia 1, 118.