ῥαθάμιγξ: Difference between revisions

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|etymtx=-ιγγος<br />Grammatical information: f., most pl.<br />Meaning: [[drop]] (Λ 536 = Υ 501, Hes., Pi.); also <b class="b2">dust particle</b> (<b class="b3">κονίης ῥ</b>. Ψ 502), [[spot]] (Opp.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">ῥαθαμίζω</b> <b class="b2">to besprinkle</b> (Opp., Nonn.; like <b class="b3">σάλπιγξ</b> : <b class="b3">-πίζω</b>). By-forms <b class="b3">ῥαθμίζεσθαι ῥαίνεσθαι</b>; <b class="b3">ῥαθαί-νεται ῥαίνεται</b>, <b class="b3">βρέχεται</b> H.; <b class="b3">ῥαθασσόμενοι ῥαινόμενοι</b> H., Phot.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Popular formation in <b class="b3">-ιγξ</b> like <b class="b3">λάϊγγες</b>, <b class="b3">στροφάλιγξ</b>, <b class="b3">πύλιγγες</b> (s.v.) a.o. (Chantraine Form. 398ff., Schwyzer 498); further analysis unknown. As basis could have functioned a noun <b class="b3">*ῥαθαμός</b> (<b class="b3">οὑλαμός</b>, <b class="b3">ποταμός</b> a.o.); beside it apparently <b class="b3">*ῥαθμός</b> in <b class="b3">ῥαθμίζεσθαι</b> (prob. through syncope, a is often found in Pre-Greek). As <b class="b3">βαθμός</b> : <b class="b3">βαίνω</b> also <b class="b3">*ῥαθμός</b> : <b class="b3">ῥαίνω</b>? Through crosses or enlargements <b class="b3">ῥα-θαίνω</b> (: <b class="b3">ῥαίνω</b>), <b class="b3">ῥαθάσσω</b> (: <b class="b3">σταλάσσω</b>). Further s. [[ῥαίνω]]. -- Diff. Bechtel Lex. s.v. (to <b class="b3">ῥώθωνες</b> [[nostrils]]). -- Clearly a Pre-Greek word (not in Furnée).

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