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|etymtx=2<br />Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: adjunct of <b class="b3">πέτρη</b> (μ 64, 79), of <b class="b3">σινδών</b> (SGDI 5702, 19; Samos IVa) [[smooth]].<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[rita]] ([[pawea]] = <b class="b3">φάρϜεα</b> [[mantels]], [[clothes]])<br />Derivatives: Beside it 1. acc. sg. (also taken as pl.) <b class="b3">λῖτ--α</b>, dat. <b class="b3">λιτ-ί</b> <b class="b2">smooth (simple(?) linen</b> (Hom.). 2. <b class="b3">λιτός</b> [[simple]] (IVa), <b class="b3">λίτως</b> (Alc. F 7, 2; connection unknown) with <b class="b3">λιτότης</b> f. [[simpleness]] (Democr. 274, Thphr.). - 3. <b class="b3">λισσός</b> (Crete IIIa, also GN), f. <b class="b3">λισσή</b> (Od.), <b class="b3">λισσάς</b>, Boeot. <b class="b3">λιττάς</b> (Corinn., A., E., Theoc., A. R.) [[smooth]], [[callow]], also metaph. [[naked]], [[insolvent]] (Crete); from here <b class="b3">λισσόομαι</b> in [<b class="b3">λισ]σωθέντων</b> ptc. <b class="b2">becoming insolvent</b> (Crete IIIa) and in <b class="b3">λίσσωμα</b> <b class="b2">bald spot on the skull</b>, <b class="b3">λίσσωσις</b> <b class="b2">becoming bald, baldheadedness</b> (Arist.); cf. <b class="b3">λισσούς δεομένους</b>. <b class="b3">καὶ τοὺς ἡσυχῆ φαλακρούς</b> H.<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: On <b class="b3">λισσάνιος</b> s. v. These words must be explained as follows acc. to Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 88ff.. The basis was the <b class="b3">τ-</b>stem <b class="b3">λι-τ-</b> in <b class="b3">λί-ς</b> and in the substantives <b class="b3">λῖτ-α</b>, <b class="b3">λιτ-ί</b>. Thematic enlargement gave <b class="b3">λιτ-ό-ς</b>; beside it a <b class="b3">ια-</b>deriv. in fem. <b class="b3">*λῖσσα</b> (from <b class="b3">*λῖτ-ι̯α</b>), with (through the orig. ablauting gen. <b class="b3">λισσῆς</b>) a new nom. <b class="b3">λισσή</b> with masc. <b class="b3">λισσός</b>. With <b class="b3">λίς</b>: <b class="b3">λῖσσα</b> cf. e.g. <b class="b3">θής</b> : <b class="b3">θῆσσα</b>, <b class="b3">Κρής</b> : <b class="b3">Κρῆσσα</b>. - From <b class="b3">λίς</b> the form <b class="b3">λεῖος</b> can hardly be separated; so <b class="b3">λι-τ-</b> zero grade to a lengthened grade <b class="b2">lēi-</b> (Fraenkel l.c.) or because of its monosyllabicity from <b class="b3">*λι-τ-</b> lengthned to <b class="b2">lei-</b> (cf. Schwyzer 350)? - There is no reason to postulate a separate word <b class="b3">λῖτ-α</b>, <b class="b3">λιτ-ί</b> [[linnen]] (s. Bq s. <b class="b3">λίνον</b>); s. also Bechtel Lex. s. <b class="b3">λίς</b>, <b class="b3">λισσός</b>. Uncertain suppositions.

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