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|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">yellow, goldyellow, reddish, brownish, blond</b>, of hairs (Il.), also of other objects (posthom.); on the meaning Capelle RhM 101, 21 f.; myk. <b class="b2">ka-sa-to</b> als EN, vgl. Gallavotti Par. del Pass. 12, 10f.<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[kasato]] as PN, cf. Gallavotti Par. del Pass. 12, 10f.<br />Compounds: Compp., e. g. <b class="b3">ξανθο-κόμης</b> (<b class="b3">-ος</b>) [[blondhaired]] (Hes., Pi.), <b class="b3">ἐπί-ξανθος</b> <b class="b2">almost yellow, yellowish</b> (X., Thphr.; Strömberg Prefix Studies 105) beside <b class="b3">ἐπι-ξανθίζομαι</b> <b class="b2">become yellowish, brornish</b> (Pherecr.).<br />Derivatives: 1. <b class="b3">Ξάνθος</b> m. name of a river, a town, a person, a horse (Il., with opposit. accent); 2. <b class="b3">ξάνθη</b> f. name of a yellow stone (Thphr.); 3. <b class="b3">ξάνθιον</b> n. name of a plant, which was used to make hairs blond (Dsc., Gal.; Strömberg Pfl.namen 23); 4. <b class="b3">ξανθότης</b>, <b class="b3">-ητος</b> f. <b class="b2">yellow colour, blindness</b> (Str.); 5. Denomin. verbs: a. <b class="b3">ξανθίζω</b> 'make, be <b class="b3">ξ</b>.' (Com., LXX) with <b class="b3">ξάνθ-ισις</b>, <b class="b3">-ισμός</b> <b class="b2">yellow coloured</b> (medic.), <b class="b3">ξανθίσματα</b> (<b class="b3">κόμης</b>, <b class="b3">χαίτης</b>) <b class="b2">blond curls</b> (E. Fr. 322, AP) ; b. <b class="b3">ξανθόομαι</b>, <b class="b3">-όω</b> 'besome, paint <b class="b3">ξ</b>.' (Dsc.) with <b class="b3">ξάνθωσις</b> (Ps.-Democr. Alch.); c. <b class="b3">ξανθύνομαι</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Thphr.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: Unexplained. On the proposed, in any case very remote cognateship with Lat. [[cānus]] <b class="b2">grey(white)</b> s. W.-Hofmann s.v., also WP. 1, 358, Pok. 533. Little value has the comparison with Etr. [[zamθic]] supposedly <b class="b2">of gold</b> (Brandenstein P.-W. 7 n, 1919), with which Heubeck Würzb. Jb. 4, 202 wants to draw also <b class="b3">Σκάμανδρος</b>. -- Cf. <b class="b3">ξουθός</b>. The word may be Pre-Greek.

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