δυσ-: Difference between revisions

|Definition=insepar. Prefix, opp. <b class="b3">εὖ</b>, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">un-, mis</b>-, with notion of <b class="b2">hard, bad, unlucky</b>, etc., as <b class="b3">δυσήλιος, δύσαγνος</b>; <b class="b2">destroying the good sense</b> of a word, or <b class="b2">increasing its bad sense</b>: hence, joined even to words expressing negation, as <b class="b3">δυσάμμορος, δυσανάσχετος</b>; poet. in strong contrasts, as <b class="b3">Πάρις Δύσπαρις, γάμος δύσγαμος</b>. Before στ, σθ, σπ, σφ<b class="b3">, σχ</b>, the final ς was omitted, v. δυστ-. (Cf. Skt. <b class="b2">du[snull ]-, dur</b>-, e.g. <b class="b2">durmanās</b>, = [[δυσμενής]]; ONorse <b class="b2">tor</b>-, e.g. <b class="b2">torsóttligr</b> (δύσμαχος); OIr. <b class="b2">du-, do</b>-, e.g. <b class="b2">dochruth</b> 'misshapen'.)</span>