κυλλός: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ή, όν, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">club-footed and bandy-legged</b>, opp. <b class="b3">βλαισός</b>, <span class="bibl">Hp. <span class="title">Art.</span>53</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">62</span>; <b class="b3">κ. πούς</b> ib.<span class="bibl">53</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span>1379</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> generally, [[deformed]], [[contracted]], κ. οὖς <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Art.</span>40</span>; <b class="b2">crippled in the arm</b>, κ. ἠκόντιζεν ἀμείνονα <span class="title">AP</span>11.84 (Lucill.), cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Matt.</span>15.30</span>, <span class="bibl">Gal.<span class="title">UP</span>1.17</span>, al.; <b class="b3">ἔμβαλε κυλλῇ</b> (sc. <b class="b3">χειρί</b>) put into <b class="b2">a crooked hand</b>, i.e. [[with]] the fingers [[crooked]] like a beggar's, to catch an alms, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>1083</span>, cf. Sch.adloc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> of things, [[crooked]], κ. κυκλάς <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PLond.</span>3.776.10</span> (vi A.D.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b3">κυλλά, τά</b>, [[choliambi]], <span class="bibl">Herod.8.79</span>.</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[deformed]], [[crippled]], [[crooked]] in hand and foot etc.' (IA.).<br />Compounds: as 1. member in <b class="b3">κυλλο-ποδίων</b> (voc. <b class="b3">-ον</b>) adjunct of Hephaistos <b class="b2">with crippled feet, hinker</b> (Il.), from <b class="b3">κυλλό-πους</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (hell.) after the nouns in <b class="b3">-ίων</b> (Schwyzer 487).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">κυλλόομαι</b>, <b class="b3">-όω</b> <b class="b2">be crippled</b> (Hp., Gal.) with <b class="b3">-ωσις</b>, <b class="b3">-ωμα</b>; <b class="b3">κυλλαίνω</b> intr. <b class="b2">id.</b> (S., Ph.). Also <b class="b3">κύλλαιος βόστρυχος</b> H.? (Grošelj Živa Ant. 3, 202).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [928] <b class="b2">*(s)kel-</b> [[bend]], [[crook]]<br />Etymology: Prob. with <b class="b3">κελλόν στρεβλόν</b>, <b class="b3">πλάγιον</b> H. (s. [[κελλάς]] s. v.) connected; [the <b class="b3">-υ-</b> in <b class="b3">κυλίνδω</b> does not belong here]. (The adduced Skt. <b class="b2">kuṇi-</b> <b class="b2">lame of an arm</b> and even more <b class="b2">kuṇḍá-</b> n. [[jar]] do not belong here, s. Mayrhofer Wb. s. v.) The form is recently explained by B. Vine, Comp. Indogerm. (1999) 566 from <b class="b2">*kol-i̯ó-</b> (according to a variant of Cowgill's law of <b class="b3">ο</b> > <b class="b3">υ</b>). Pok. 928; cf. also on <b class="b3">κυρτός</b>. Or is the word rather Pre-Greek; cf. Fur. 354 n. 55.