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|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[hedgehog]], also <b class="b2">sea-urchin</b>, and metaph. as techn. term in several professions, e. g. [[vessel]], esp. <b class="b2">vessel to keep juridical documents</b>, <b class="b2">the third stomach of ruminants</b>, <b class="b2">the rounded part of the Dorian capital</b> (Ion.-Att.).<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[ekino]] \/[[Ekhinos]]\/.<br />Compounds: As 1. member in <b class="b3">ἐχινομήτρα</b> <b class="b2">the greatest kind of see-urchin, Echinus melo</b> (Arist.; cf. Strömberg Wortstudien 23).<br />Derivatives: Dimin.: <b class="b3">ἐχινίς</b> [[vessel]] (Hp.), <b class="b3">-ίσκος</b> <b class="b2">id.</b>, also <b class="b2">hollow of the ear</b> (Poll.); <b class="b3">ἐχίνιον</b> plant-name (Dsc.); <b class="b3">ἐχινέα</b>, <b class="b3">-ῆ</b> <b class="b2">hedgehog-skin</b> (Hdn.), also vessel (Delos IIIa); <b class="b3">ἐχινέες</b> m. pl. a kind of Libyan spinous mouse (Hdt.); <b class="b3">Ἐχῖναι</b> or <b class="b3">-άδες</b> f. pl. name of a group of islands in the Ionian Sea (Β 635); - <b class="b3">ἐχινώδης</b> [[rugged]] (Arist., Str.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [292] <b class="b2">*h₁eǵʰi-</b> [[hedgehog]]<br />Etymology: Prob. from <b class="b3">ἔχις</b> [[snake]] with suffixal <b class="b3">-ινο-</b> (i.e. <b class="b2">-iHno-</b>) (Chantraine Formation 204, Schwyzer 191 w. n. 2), so prop. "snake-animal" = "snake-eater" (Schulze in Lohmann Gnomon 11, 407) as tabu-word for <b class="b3">χήρ</b> (s. v.). An <b class="b2">n-</b>suffix also in the ablauting Arm. [[ozni]] [[hedgehog]] (IE <b class="b2">*oǵh-īn-i̯o-</b>, evtl. <b class="b2">-ēn-i̯o-</b>); beside it with <b class="b2">-l-</b> Germ., e. g. OHG [[igil]] < PGm. <b class="b2">*eʒīla-</b>. Balto-Slavic has a <b class="b2">i̯o-</b>deriv., e. g. Lit. <b class="b2">ežỹs</b>, Skr.-Csl. [[ježь]], IE <b class="b2">*eǵhi̯o-</b>. Uncertain remains the interpretation of Phryg. <b class="b3">εξις</b> (= <b class="b3">εζις</b>?). - Litt. in Vasmer Russ. et. Wb. 1, 392, e. g. Specht KZ 66, 56f., Ursprung 39; Pok. 292; older litt. in Bq.

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