ἐόργη
τῷ οὖν τόξῳ ὄνομα βίος, ἔργον δὲ θάνατος → the bow is called life, but its work is death (Heraclitus)
English (LSJ)
ἡ,
A = τορύνη, Poll.6.88 (cf. εὐέργν).
German (Pape)
[Seite 892] ἡ, ein Geräth des Kochs, Poll. 10, 98.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἐόργη: ἡ = τορύνη (ἥτις ὠνομάζετο καὶ εὐέργη), Πολυδ. ϛʹ, 88· καὶ ῥῆμα ἐοργῆσαι = τορυνῆσαι αὐτόθι.
Frisk Etymological English
Grammatical information: f.
Meaning: τορύνη, stirrer, ladle
Derivatives: with denomin. ἐοργῆσαι τορυνῆσαι and ἐοργίζεται τορυνᾶται (Poll., H., Eust.). Further εὑέργη, εὑεργέτις (Poll., H., EM).
Origin: IE [Indo-European] [1168] *u̯erǵ- work
Etymology: Semantically and formally close to ὀργάζειν make weak, knead, tan (Att.), cf. εὑεργής of ἄρτος (`well-knead loaf') in Andromachos (ap. Gal. 14, 38, 9). The formation ἐόργη (for *ἐοργή like δείλη, δέρη ? Solmsen; s. below) like ἐδ-ωδ-ή etc. may be from reduplicated *Ϝε-Ϝοργ-η. The variants εὑέργη, -έτις seem folketymological reshapings (cf. εὑεργής above). ὀργάζω has -άζω for ὀργάω (Schwyzer 718). The words belong to ἔργον, ἔρδω (s. vv.); on the meaning cf. Germ. (Teig) wirken = knead. - Solmsen Unt. 256f..
