κάρδαμον: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">nose-smart</b>, <b class="b2">Lepidium sativum</b> (X., Ar.).<br />Other forms: Also <b class="b3">παρδαμάλη</b> (Phot.).<br />Compounds: As 1. member in <b class="b3">καρδάμωμον</b>, haplological for <b class="b3">καρδαμ-άμωμον</b> n. [[cardamum]] (Thphr., Dsc.; on the formation Schwyzer 263).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">καρδαμίς</b> = <b class="b3">κάρδαμον</b> (Nic., Plu.; after <b class="b3">κεδρίς</b> a. o., Chantraine Formation 343); <b class="b3">καρδαμίνη</b> <b class="b2">id.</b>, also = <b class="b3">σισύμβριον</b> a. o. (Dsc.; Chantraine 204); <b class="b3">καρδαμάλη</b> <b class="b2">Persian cake from κάρδαμον</b> (Trypho ap. Ath.; as <b class="b3">ἀμυγδάλη</b> a. o.); <b class="b3">καρδαμίζω</b> "talk cress", i. e. <b class="b2">talk nonsense</b> (Nic. Th. 617). - Sideform <b class="b3">καρδάνη</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Gloss.; after <b class="b3">βοτάνη</b>?).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Among the plant names in <b class="b3">-αμον</b> (Schwyzer 494, Chantraine 133) there are several clear loan-words, so will be <b class="b3">κάρδαμον</b>. Doubtful suggestion in Strömberg Wortstudien 38: from <b class="b3">*κάρδος</b> = <b class="b3">κράδος</b> [[twig]] in <b class="b3">καρδίδιον</b>, <b class="b3">ἀνα-</b>, <b class="b3">κατακάρδιον</b>. Not better Grošelj Razprave 2, 41: to <b class="b3">σκόροδον</b>. - Skt. <b class="b2">kardamaḥ</b> is a further unknown plant, so connection with <b class="b3">κάρδαμον</b> remains uncertain\/improbable; cf. Mayrhofer KEWA s. v. - <b class="b3">-αμον</b> is a Pre-Greek suffix, Fur. 64 n. 269. The word has been connected with Hitt. [[karšani]] <b class="b2">an alcalic plant</b>, Fur. 252.