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|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">ankle, foot-joint</b> (Il.), metaph. <b class="b2">the lower part of a mountain</b> (Pi., Theoc. a.o.).<br />Compounds: Compp., e.g. <b class="b3">τανύ-σφυρος</b> <b class="b2">with slender ankles</b> (h. Cer., Hes.); <b class="b3">ἐπι-σφύρ-ια</b> n. pl. <b class="b2">ankle-buckles</b> (Il.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">σφυρόομαι</b> <b class="b2">to tie ones ankle-buckles, to put on one's laced boots</b> (Carm. Pop. 7) with <b class="b3">-ωτήρ</b>, <b class="b3">-ῆρος</b> m. <b class="b2">shoe-strap</b> (LXX; cf. lit. on <b class="b3">σφαιρωτήρ</b>).<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Zero grade verbal noun to <b class="b3">σπαίρω</b> [impossible because of <b class="b3">σφ-</b>], Skt. <b class="b2">sphuráti</b> etc., prob. inherited and identical with OHG <b class="b2">spuri-halz</b> [[limping]] (prop. *"knuckle-lame"?) except for the final vowel. To this from Germ. also OHG [[spor]] n. <b class="b2">foot-mark</b>, [[sporo]] [[spur]] etc.; s. <b class="b3">σπαίρω</b> w. lit. The by-form <b class="b3">σφυδρά</b> pl. (Act. Ap. 3, 7, pap. IIIp, H., gloss.) is folketymol. (after <b class="b3">σφόδρα</b>, <b class="b3">-ός</b> or <b class="b3">σφυδῶν</b>?; no decision gives Schwyzer 239 Zus. 2). -- The IE etym. cannot explain inital <b class="b3">σφ-</b> and must be given up. | |etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">ankle, foot-joint</b> (Il.), metaph. <b class="b2">the lower part of a mountain</b> (Pi., Theoc. a.o.).<br />Compounds: Compp., e.g. <b class="b3">τανύ-σφυρος</b> <b class="b2">with slender ankles</b> (h. Cer., Hes.); <b class="b3">ἐπι-σφύρ-ια</b> n. pl. <b class="b2">ankle-buckles</b> (Il.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">σφυρόομαι</b> <b class="b2">to tie ones ankle-buckles, to put on one's laced boots</b> (Carm. Pop. 7) with <b class="b3">-ωτήρ</b>, <b class="b3">-ῆρος</b> m. <b class="b2">shoe-strap</b> (LXX; cf. lit. on <b class="b3">σφαιρωτήρ</b>).<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Zero grade verbal noun to <b class="b3">σπαίρω</b> [impossible because of <b class="b3">σφ-</b>], Skt. <b class="b2">sphuráti</b> etc., prob. inherited and identical with OHG <b class="b2">spuri-halz</b> [[limping]] (prop. *"knuckle-lame"?) except for the final vowel. To this from Germ. also OHG [[spor]] n. <b class="b2">foot-mark</b>, [[sporo]] [[spur]] etc.; s. <b class="b3">σπαίρω</b> w. lit. The by-form <b class="b3">σφυδρά</b> pl. (Act. Ap. 3, 7, pap. IIIp, H., gloss.) is folketymol. (after <b class="b3">σφόδρα</b>, <b class="b3">-ός</b> or <b class="b3">σφυδῶν</b>?; no decision gives Schwyzer 239 Zus. 2). -- The IE etym. cannot explain inital <b class="b3">σφ-</b> and must be given up. | ||
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|mdlsjtxt=!σφῠρόν, οῦ,<br /><b class="num">I.</b> the [[ankle]], Il., [[attic]]<br /><b class="num">II.</b> metaph, the [[foot]] of a [[mountain]], Pind., Anth.; also, Λιβύας [[ἄκρον]] [[σφυρόν]] the [[very]] [[furthest]] [[part]] of [[Libya]], Theocr. | |||
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