κόνδυλος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">knuckle, bony knob, clenched fist, swelling of the gum etc.</b> (IA.).<br />Compounds: As 2. member e. g. in <b class="b3">μονο-</b>, <b class="b3">δι-κόνδυλος</b> (Arist.)<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">κονδυλώδης</b> <b class="b2">κ.-like, knuckly</b>, <b class="b3">κονδύλωμα</b>, <b class="b3">-σις</b> <b class="b2">hard swelling, tumour</b> (Hp.), <b class="b3">κονδυλωτός</b> <b class="b2">with κ. </b> (Att. inscr. IVa), hardly through <b class="b3">κονδυλόομαι</b> <b class="b2">get κ., swell</b> (Aspasia ap. Aët., H.). - <b class="b3">κονδυλίζω</b> <b class="b2">hit the face with the fist, muffet, maltreat</b> (Hyp., LXX) with <b class="b3">κονδυλισμός</b> (LXX).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Other body-parts in <b class="b3">-υλος</b> are <b class="b3">δάκτυλος</b>, <b class="b3">σφόνδυλος</b> (cf. Güntert Reimwortbildungen 116ff.); the stem is seen in <b class="b3">κόνδοι ἀστράγαλοι</b> H. Connections outside Greek are quite uncertain or to be rejected: Skt. <b class="b2">kanda-</b> m. <b class="b2">root of a knol</b>, <b class="b2">kandúka-</b> m. [[playball]], <b class="b2">kanduka-</b> n. [[cushion]] (cf. Mayrhofer s. vv., who considers Dravidian origin); Lith. <b class="b2">kánduolas</b> [[kernel]] (to <b class="b2">kándu</b>, <b class="b2">ką́sti</b> [[bite]]; s. Fraenkel Lit. et. Wb. s. v.). Older lit. in Bq. - The word will be Pre-Greek because of its structure, <b class="b3">κονδ-υλ-</b>. It may continue <b class="b3">*κανδυλος</b> with <b class="b3">ο</b> < <b class="b3">α</b> before <b class="b3">υ</b>.