σκύμνος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ (and ἡ, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Or.</span> 1493</span> (lyr.)), <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">cub. whelp</b>, esp. <b class="b2">lion's whelp</b>, <span class="bibl">Il.18.319</span>; in full, σ. λέοντος <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.32</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Supp.</span>1223</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span>1431</span>, cf.<span class="bibl"><span class="title">Eq.</span>1039</span>; λεαίνης <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>987</span>; also of other animals, σ. λύκων <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ba.</span>699</span>; λυγγός <span class="bibl">Lasus 3</span>; <b class="b3">τῆς ἄρκτου, τῆς ἐλέφαντος</b>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>571b30</span>, <span class="bibl">578a22</span>; ἀλώπεκος <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Lyc.</span> 18</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> in poets also of men, <b class="b3">Ἀχίλλειος σ</b>. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Andr.</span>1170</span> (anap.), cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Rh.</span>381</span> (anap.); of women, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Or.</span>1213</span>, <span class="bibl">1387</span> (lyr.).</span>

|elnltext=σκύμνος -ου, ὁ jong, welp, specifiek van een leeuw maar ook van andere dieren. overdr. van personen jong, kind.

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m. (f.)<br />Meaning: [[cub]], [[whelp]], esp. <b class="b2">young lion</b> (ep. Ion. poet. Σ 319, also Arist. a. o.)<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">σκυμν-ίον</b> n. dimin. (Arist.), <b class="b3">-εύω</b> <b class="b2">to breed</b> (Philostr.), <b class="b3">-ειος</b> <b class="b2">belonging to σ.</b> (Suid.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Formation as <b class="b3">πρυμνός</b>, <b class="b3">ἐρυμνός</b>, <b class="b3">στάμνος</b> etc., hardly to be eseparated from <b class="b3">σκύλαξ</b> (Osthoff Etym. parerga 274, Chantraine Form. 215, Schwyzer 524 w. lit., Specht Ursprung 183), but in detail unclear. To be rejected Petersen AmJPh 56, 64 ff. (cross of <b class="b3">*κύμνος</b> [to <b class="b3">κυέω</b>] and <b class="b3">σκύλαξ</b>) and Schwyzer KZ 37, 150 (s. Bq). -- Because of the <b class="b3">-μν-</b> prob. a Pre-Greek word (not in Furnée). (I think that a cross (as often assumed in the lit.) is extremely rare.