θύλακος: Difference between revisions

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|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">sack, bag, mostly of leather</b> (IA);<br />Other forms: <b class="b3">θυλλίς θύλακος</b> H, <b class="b3">θυλίδες οἱ θύλακοι</b> H.; also <b class="b3">θῦλαξ</b> (Com.; backformation from <b class="b3">θυλάκιον</b>?, Kalén Quaest. gramm. graecae 106)<br />Compounds: As 2. member in <b class="b3">παρσουλακίρ</b> (= <b class="b3">παραθυλακίς</b>) <b class="b3">τὸν τρίβωνα</b>, <b class="b3">ὅταν γένηται ὡς θύλακος</b> H. (Lac.).<br />Derivatives: Diminut.: <b class="b3">θυλάκιον</b> (IA), <b class="b3">θυλακίς</b> f. (Ael.), <b class="b3">θυλακίσκος</b> m. (Com., Dsc.). Other: <b class="b3">θυλακή</b> [[scrotum]] (Hippiatr.), <b class="b3">θυλακώδης</b> (Thphr.), <b class="b3">θυλακόεις</b> (Nic.) <b class="b2">sack-like</b>; <b class="b3">θυλακῖτις</b> in plant names (Dsc.): <b class="b3">θ</b>. <b class="b3">μήκων</b> (after the capsules of the seeds), <b class="b3">θ</b>. <b class="b3">νάρδος</b> (after the acorn-like root-stock; Strömberg Pflanzennamen 36); <b class="b3">θυλακίζειν τὸ ἀπαιτεῖν τι ἑπόμενον μετὰ θυλάκου</b>. <b class="b3">Ταραντῖνοι</b> H. - Short form, poss. with hypocoristic gemination: <b class="b3">θυλ(λ)ίς</b> H.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Unexplained; prob. foreign, like <b class="b3">σάκκος</b>. - Removing a <b class="b3">κ-</b>suffix gives <b class="b3">*θυλ(ο</b>)- which has been compared with Lith. <b class="b2">dundùlis</b> <b class="b2">puffed, big-bellied</b>, if from <b class="b2">*dul-dùlis</b> (Persson Beitr. 2, 798 n. 1; other suggestion by Fraenkel Lit. et Wb. s. <b class="b2">demblỹs</b>), in the end connected with 1. <b class="b3">θύω</b>; cf. Slav., e. g. Russ. [[dutь]] [[blow]] with <b class="b2">dúlo</b> <b class="b2">mouth (of a gun, a canon)</b>, Ukr. <b class="b2">dúɫo</b> [[bellows]]. - The forms <b class="b3">θαλλίς μάρσιππος μακρός</b>, <b class="b3">θάλλικα σάκκου εἶδος</b> H.. with different vowel, are unexplained. - The suffix <b class="b3">-ακ-</b> shows Pre-Greek origin (Beekes, Pre-Greek, Suffixes).

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