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|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">evening dusk, dark, morning twilight</b> (Il., X.); on the inflection Schwyzer 514f.; second. nom. acc. <b class="b3">κνέφος</b> (H., Suid., Phot.; from <b class="b3">κνέφους</b>, <b class="b3">-ει</b>?).<br />Other forms: <b class="b3">-αος</b>, <b class="b3">-ους</b> etc.<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">κνεφαῖος</b> <b class="b2">of the dusk, dark</b> (trag., com., Hippon.); <b class="b3">κνεφάζω</b> <b class="b2">get dark</b> (A. Ag. 131 [lyr.]).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Several hypotheses, all problematic. Often connected with the Indo-Iran. word for [[night]], Skt. <b class="b2">kṣap-</b>, Av. <b class="b2">xšap-</b> with Hitt. <b class="b2">išpant-</b> [[id]]), e.g. Petersen AmJPh 56, 57 (cross of <b class="b3">*ξέπας</b> or <b class="b3">*κτέπας</b> and <b class="b3">νέφος</b>). Others compared Lat. [[creper]] [[dusk]], [[crepusculum]] <b class="b2">id.</b> assuming Sabinic (evt. Etruscan) development. Not better Meillet BSL 23, 259f., Studia Indo-iranica for W. Geiger 234ff. and Grošelj Živa Ant. 2, 210f. - Rhyming is <b class="b3">ψέφας</b>, s. v.; cf. also <b class="b3">δνόφος</b>. The varying anlaut through taboo, Specht Ursprung 11. See Pok. 649), W.-Hofmann s. [[creper]]. The word is no doubt Pre-Greek, but the variation is not known from elsewhere. | |etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">evening dusk, dark, morning twilight</b> (Il., X.); on the inflection Schwyzer 514f.; second. nom. acc. <b class="b3">κνέφος</b> (H., Suid., Phot.; from <b class="b3">κνέφους</b>, <b class="b3">-ει</b>?).<br />Other forms: <b class="b3">-αος</b>, <b class="b3">-ους</b> etc.<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">κνεφαῖος</b> <b class="b2">of the dusk, dark</b> (trag., com., Hippon.); <b class="b3">κνεφάζω</b> <b class="b2">get dark</b> (A. Ag. 131 [lyr.]).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Several hypotheses, all problematic. Often connected with the Indo-Iran. word for [[night]], Skt. <b class="b2">kṣap-</b>, Av. <b class="b2">xšap-</b> with Hitt. <b class="b2">išpant-</b> [[id]]), e.g. Petersen AmJPh 56, 57 (cross of <b class="b3">*ξέπας</b> or <b class="b3">*κτέπας</b> and <b class="b3">νέφος</b>). Others compared Lat. [[creper]] [[dusk]], [[crepusculum]] <b class="b2">id.</b> assuming Sabinic (evt. Etruscan) development. Not better Meillet BSL 23, 259f., Studia Indo-iranica for W. Geiger 234ff. and Grošelj Živa Ant. 2, 210f. - Rhyming is <b class="b3">ψέφας</b>, s. v.; cf. also <b class="b3">δνόφος</b>. The varying anlaut through taboo, Specht Ursprung 11. See Pok. 649), W.-Hofmann s. [[creper]]. The word is no doubt Pre-Greek, but the variation is not known from elsewhere. | ||
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|mdlsjtxt=[κνέφεϊ as if from [[κνέφος]]<br /><b class="num">1.</b> [[darkness]], [[evening]] [[dusk]], [[twilight]], Il., Aesch.; also, τὸ κατὰ γῆς κν. Eur.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[later]], the [[morning]] [[twilight]] or [[dawn]], Lat. [[diluculum]], κνέφᾳ at [[dawn]], Xen. | |||
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