σόγκος
πρὶν τοὺς ἰχθῦς ἑλεῖν σὺ τὴν ἅλμην κυκᾷς → you're mixing the sauce before catching the fish | don't count your chickens before they are hatched | don't count your chickens before they hatch | first catch your hare | first catch your rabbit | first catch your rabbit and then make your stew | first catch your hare, then cook it | first catch your hare, then cook him
English (LSJ)
ὁ,=
A σόγχος 1 (q.v.). II in Lat. form, soncus niger,= σόγχος 11, Plin.HN22.88.
German (Pape)
[Seite 912] = σόγχος, Theophr., Diosc.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
σόγκος: ὁ, = σόγχος, ὃ ἴδε.
Greek Monolingual
ὁ, Α
βλ. σόγχος.
Frisk Etymological English
σόγχος
Grammatical information: m.
Meaning: sow thistle, Sonchus aspera (Antiph., Thphr. etc.).
Derivatives: σογκώδης σ. -like' (Thphr.), σογχίτης m. hawkweed, ἱεράκιον τὸ μέγα (Ps.-Dsc.).
Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]
Etymology: Unexplained. Seen the variation clearly a Pre-Greek word. Furnée 134f. compares a Baque word (tšokoŕo silver thistle).
