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|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[basin]], [[dish]] (Ar., inscr., pap.)<br />Other forms: hell. <b class="b3">λακάνη</b> (with regressive assimilation, <b class="b3">-ίσκη</b> H.)<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">λεκάν-ιον</b> (Ar.), <b class="b3">-ίδιον</b> (Poll., Eust.), <b class="b3">-ίς</b> f. (Ar., Plu., Luc.), <b class="b3">-ίσκη</b> f. (com.). Also <b class="b3">λέκος</b> n. <b class="b2">id.</b> (Hippon.) with <b class="b3">λεκάριον</b> (hell.), <b class="b3">λεκίς</b> f. (Epich.), <b class="b3">-ίσκος</b> m. (Hp.) <b class="b2">id.</b>; <b class="b3">-ίσκιον</b> as measure (Hp.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: With <b class="b3">λεκάνη</b> cf. <b class="b3">πατάνη</b>, <b class="b3">οὑράνη</b> a. other names of utensils in <b class="b3">-άνη</b>, <b class="b3">-ανον</b> in Chantraine Form. 197ff., Schwyzer 489f.; beside it <b class="b3">λέκος</b> as <b class="b3">ἄγγος</b>; <b class="b3">λέκος</b>: <b class="b3">λεκάνη</b> like <b class="b3">στέφος</b> : <b class="b3">στεφάνη</b>, <b class="b3">ἕρκος</b> : <b class="b3">ἑρκάνη</b> (late; s. on <b class="b3">ἕρκος</b>). - Connections outside Greek are uncertain; usually <b class="b3">λέκος</b>, <b class="b3">λεκάνη</b> together with Lat. [[lanx]] [[dish]] are as *lowering, bending inward' derived from a great group of words from [[bend]], [[bow]] (IE (<b class="b2">*el-ek-</b>), with also <b class="b3">λοξός</b> and <b class="b3">λέχριος</b> (s. vv.); s. WP. 1, 157f., Pok. 308, W.-Hofmann s. [[lanx]]; this is certainly wong, as the word is Pre-Greek; thus Ernout-Meillet s. [[lanx]]. - From <b class="b3">λεκάνη</b> Arab. [[leken]], Osm. [[lejen]] > NGr. <b class="b3">τὸ λεγένι</b> [[bowl]], [[dish]], ORuss. [[legin]] <b class="b2">kind of vase</b>; Maidhof Glotta 10,13, Vasmer Wb. s. v. (cf. also on <b class="b2">lochánь</b>).

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