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|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[taper]], [[bendable]], [[slender]] (ep. Ψ 583; Treu Von Homer zur Lyrik 171 etc.).<br />Other forms: <b class="b3">βράδινος</b> (Sapph.). Beside it <b class="b3">ῥοδανός</b> adjunct of <b class="b3">δονακεύς</b> (Σ 576; vv.ll. <b class="b3">ῥαδινός</b>, <b class="b3">ῥαδαλός</b>); to which <b class="b3">ῥοδάν-η</b> f. <b class="b2">weft thread</b> (Batr. a.o.) with <b class="b3">-ίζω</b> (sch. a.o.), <b class="b3">-ιστήριον</b> (gloss.); also <b class="b3">ῥαδανός</b>, <b class="b3">-η</b>, <b class="b3">-ίζω</b> (II.), <b class="b3">-ᾶται πλανᾶται</b> H., <b class="b3">βραδανίζει ῥιπίζει</b>, <b class="b3">τινάσσει</b> H.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Formations like <b class="b3">πυκ-ινός</b>, <b class="b3">πιθ-ανός</b> a.o. (Chantraine Form. 197f., 201) from unknown basis (<b class="b3">*ῥαδεῖν</b>, <b class="b3">*ῥάδος</b>, <b class="b3">*ῥόδος</b>?). Since Düntzer KZ 13, 6 f. connected with the semant. sightly unclear <b class="b3">περι-ρρηδής</b> (s.v.); to this (Lobeck Paralip. 156) also <b class="b3">ῥαδές τὸ ἀμφοτέρως ἐγκεκλιμένον</b> H. It may also be connected with <b class="b3">ῥάδαμνος</b> (s.v.), with Düntzer (so to be separated from <b class="b3">ῥάδιξ</b>?). Further perh. also the Arc. PN <b class="b3">Ϝράδων</b>. Unclear <b class="b3">ῥαδανῶροι οἱ τῶν λαχάνων κηπουροί</b> H. (rejected by Bechtel Dial. 2,420; to be rejected v. Blumenthal Hesychst. 11). Improbable on <b class="b3">ῥαδινός</b> : <b class="b3">ῥαδανός</b> Güntert Reimwortbildungen 129. -- From other languages have been adduced: Skt. <b class="b2">ávradanta</b> 3. pl. ipf. approx. <b class="b2">loosened, made themselves loose (stagger?)</b> <b class="b3">ἅπ</b>. <b class="b3">λεγ</b>. (RV2,24,3); Germ., Goth. [[wraton]] <b class="b3">πορεύεσθαι</b>, <b class="b3">διοδεύειν</b>', OWNo. [[rata]] <b class="b2">id.</b>; also Lith. <b class="b2">randù</b>, <b class="b2">ràsti</b> [[find]] (s. Fraenkel s.v.); all hypothetic. Details in Bechtel Lex. s. <b class="b3">περιρρηδής</b>; older discussion by Curtius 352. -- (Hardly further to <b class="b2">u̯er-</b> [[turn]], [[bow]] WP. 1, 273f., Pok. 1153.) -- The variation <b class="b2">*u̯rad-</b>\/<b class="b2">u̯rod-</b> shows that it is a Pre-Greek word.

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