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|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">bent, crooked, shrivelled (of age, dryness, cold), stiff</b> (ep. poet. h.Ap.); <b class="b3">ῥικνοφυεῖς τὰς στρεβλὰς καὶ πεπιεσμένας</b> H.<br />Compounds: <b class="b3">ἐπί-ρρικνος</b> <b class="b2">somewhat bent</b> (X., Poll.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">ῥικν-ήεις</b> <b class="b2">id.</b>, enlarged form (Nic.); <b class="b3">-ότης</b> = <b class="b3">καμπυλότης</b> H.; <b class="b3">-ώδης</b> [[shrivelled]] (Hp., AP); <b class="b3">ῥικνόομαι</b>, rarely with <b class="b3">κατα-</b>, <b class="b3">δια-</b>, <b class="b2">to shrivel, to contract, to contort</b> (S., Arist., Opp.) with <b class="b3">ῥίκνωσις</b> f. [[shrivelling]], [[wrinkledness]] (Hp.). -- Beside it <b class="b3">ῥοικός</b> [[crooked]], [[bowlegged]] (Archil., Hp., Arist.). -- Further <b class="b3">ῥικάζεται</b> H. as explanation (beside <b class="b3">στροβεῖται</b>) of <b class="b3">ῥιξικάζεται</b> (s.v.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [1158] <b class="b2">*wroiḱ-</b> [[turn]], [[envelop]], [[crooked]]<br />Etymology: With <b class="b3">ῥικ-νός</b> : <b class="b3">ῥοικ-ός</b> cf. e.g. <b class="b3">πικ-ρός</b> : <b class="b3">ποικ-ίλος</b>. With <b class="b3">ῥοικός</b> agree Lith. <b class="b2">ráišas</b> (<b class="b2">raĩšas</b>) [[limping]], [[lame]] (cf. for the meaning <b class="b3">κυλλός</b> [[crooked]], [[crippled]]), Germ., MEng. [[wrāh]] [[wrong]], [[stubborn]], NDutch [[wreeg]] [[stiff]], formally also Av. [[urvaēsa]] m. <b class="b2">whirlwind, tuningpoint of the racecourse</b>, IE <b class="b2">*u̯riḱo-s</b> m. approx. [[turning]], [[curvature]], adj. [[turned]], [[crooked]]. Beside it from IE <b class="b2">*u̯reiḱo-s</b> a.o. MLG [[wrīch]] <b class="b2">forbidden, distorted, fixed, stiff etc.</b> Corresponding primary verbs: a zero grade yot-present in Av. <b class="b2">urvis-ya-</b> <b class="b2">turn in circles, turn about</b>; a full grade root-present in OE [[wrēon]] (PGm. <b class="b2">*u̯rīhan</b>, IE <b class="b2">*u̯reiḱ-</b>) with pret. [[wrāh]] (PGm. <b class="b2">*u̯raih</b>, IE <b class="b2">*u̯roiḱ-a</b>) [[envelop]] (on the meaning cf. <b class="b3">εἰλύω</b> and 2. <b class="b3">εἰλέω</b>; s.vv.). A denominative or deverbative deriv. is the <b class="b3">ἅπ</b>. <b class="b3">λεγ ῥικάζεται</b> H.; the form <b class="b3">ῥιξικά-ζεται</b>, thus glossed (and with <b class="b3">στροβεῖται</b>), must, if at all rightly transmitted, be an expressive enlargement; cf. Baunack Phil. 70, 370. -- Further representatives of this richly developed root in WP. 1, 278 f.. Pok. 1158f., W.-Hofmann s. [[rīca]] ('enveloping kerchief'; IE <b class="b2">*u̯reiḱā</b>), Fraenkel s. <b class="b2">ráišas</b> 1.; there rich lit.

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