ὁμαλός: Difference between revisions

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|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[equal]], [[level]], [[smooth]] (ι 327).<br />Other forms: <b class="b3">ὁμαλής</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Pl., X., Arist.; innovation, Schwyzer 513).<br />Compounds: As 2. member e.g. in <b class="b3">ἀν-ώμαλος</b> [[unequal]] (IA.; comp. length.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">ὁμαλ-ότης</b>, <b class="b3">-ητος</b> f. <b class="b2">equality, even surface</b> (Pl., Arist.), <b class="b3">-εύς</b> m. [[leveller]] (who levels the bottom of the acker, pap. IIIa; Mayser I: 3, 15). Denominative Verbs: 1. <b class="b3">ὁμαλ-ίζω</b>, also w. <b class="b3">δι-</b>, <b class="b3">ἐξ-</b> a.o., <b class="b2">to level, to balance</b> (X., Arist.) with <b class="b3">ὁμαλ-ισμός</b> m. [[levelling]] (LXX, S.E.), <b class="b3">-ιξις</b> f. [[levelling]] (Delph., Didyma, <b class="b3">-ιστῆρες</b> m. pl. <b class="b2">instruments for levelling</b> (Gloss.), <b class="b3">-ιστρον</b> H.; hardky to <b class="b3">λίστρον</b>. 2. <b class="b3">ὁμαλ-ύνω</b>, also w. <b class="b3">δι-</b>, <b class="b3">προ-</b>, <b class="b3">συν-</b>, <b class="b2">to make equal, to make level</b> (Hp., Pl., Arist.; Fraenkel Denom. 36f.) with <b class="b3">-υντικός</b> [[equational]] (Gal.). 3. <b class="b3">*ἀν-ομαλ-όω</b> in <b class="b3">ἀνομάλω-σις</b> f. [[equalisation]] (Arist.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [902] <b class="b2">*somh₂(e)lo-</b> [[level]], [[smooth]]<br />Etymology: Identical with Lat. [[similis]] [[similar]] (if <b class="b2">-lis</b> < <b class="b2">-los</b>) in formation; in any case with [[o]] -ablaut from the <b class="b2">l-</b>stem in Lat. [[semel]] [[once]], Goth. [[simle]] <b class="b2">one time</b> = [[once]] etc.; beside it an <b class="b2">n-</b>stem in Germ., e.g. OWNo. [[saman]] <b class="b2">together etc.</b> (Benveniste Origines 43). Arm. [[amol]] <b class="b2">harnessed pair of cows</b> (Adontz Mél. Boisacq 1, 10) must remain far for its meaning, cf. Dumézil BSL 39, 241 f.

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