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|etymtx=Grammatical information: f. a. m.<br />Meaning: name of <b class="b2">turnable pillars or columns</b>, in the form of a three-sided pyramide, on which in Athens the laws of Solon were inscribed, also used of other inscribed tables (Att., Arist.).<br />Other forms: (<b class="b3">-ιες</b>), <b class="b3">-εων</b> pl., rarely sg. <b class="b3">κύρβις</b>.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: As technical expression suspected of being a loan. Mostly (Zupitza, Prellwitz etc., s. WP. 1, 472 f.) connected with <b class="b3">καρπός</b> <b class="b2">hand-root</b> (s. v.); apart from the diverging <b class="b3">-β-</b>, is an IE. sequence <b class="b2">*kurp-</b>, <b class="b2">*kurb-</b> (for <b class="b2">*ku̯r̥p-</b>, <b class="b2">*ku̯r̥b-</b>) hardly acceptable. - Here also <b class="b3">Κύρβαντες</b> (s. v.) seen the whirling dances (Fick BB 29, 239, Kretschmer Sprache 2, 68)? Discussion in Jeffery, Local Scrpts 53f. - Pre-Greek?
|etymtx=Grammatical information: f. a. m.<br />Meaning: name of <b class="b2">turnable pillars or columns</b>, in the form of a three-sided pyramide, on which in Athens the laws of Solon were inscribed, also used of other inscribed tables (Att., Arist.).<br />Other forms: (<b class="b3">-ιες</b>), <b class="b3">-εων</b> pl., rarely sg. <b class="b3">κύρβις</b>.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: As technical expression suspected of being a loan. Mostly (Zupitza, Prellwitz etc., s. WP. 1, 472 f.) connected with <b class="b3">καρπός</b> <b class="b2">hand-root</b> (s. v.); apart from the diverging <b class="b3">-β-</b>, is an IE. sequence <b class="b2">*kurp-</b>, <b class="b2">*kurb-</b> (for <b class="b2">*ku̯r̥p-</b>, <b class="b2">*ku̯r̥b-</b>) hardly acceptable. - Here also <b class="b3">Κύρβαντες</b> (s. v.) seen the whirling dances (Fick BB 29, 239, Kretschmer Sprache 2, 68)? Discussion in Jeffery, Local Scrpts 53f. - Pre-Greek?
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|mdlsjtxt=<br /><b class="num">I.</b> triangular tablets, fitted at the angles so as to [[form]] a [[pyramid]] of [[three]] sides, and having the earliest laws written on the sides, Ar., Plat.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> in sg. metaph. of a [[pettifogging]] [[lawyer]], Ar.
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