λῶμα: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">hem, fringe, border of cloths</b> (LXX Ex.)<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">-λωμάτιον</b> (AP); acc. to EM = <b class="b3">τὸ γυναικεῖον</b>, <b class="b3">ο ὑπὸ Ἀττικῶν ὄχθοβος λέγε-ται</b> ... <b class="b3">καὶ τὸ εἰς τὸ κατώτερον τοῦ ἱματίου ἐπίβλημα</b>; acc. to H. also = <b class="b3">ῥαφή</b>, <b class="b3">κλωσμός</b>. - Besides <b class="b3">ἀσύλλωτοι</b>, of <b class="b3">ὦμοι</b> [[shoulders]] (Call. Dian. 213), prop. <b class="b2">not fixed together, -twisted</b>, i.e. [[uncovered]]; <b class="b3">εὔλωστοι εὑυφεῖς</b>, <b class="b3">λωστοί ἐρραμμένοι</b>, <b class="b3">ἄλωστοι ἄρραφοι</b>, <b class="b3">λωισμόν λῶμα</b> H.; s. Danielsson IF 4, 162ff.<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: By Bezzenberger BB 5, 315 <b class="b3">λῶμα</b> is connected with <b class="b3">εὔληρα</b>, <b class="b3">αὔληρα</b> [[rein]], Lat. [[lōrum]] <b class="b2">id.</b>, with Arm. [[lar]] 'noose, cord'; on the suffixvariation <b class="b3">λῶ-μα</b> : [[lōrum]] cf. e.g. <b class="b3">γνῶ-μα</b>: <b class="b3">γνώ-ρ-ιμος</b>, <b class="b3">κλῆ-μα</b>: <b class="b3">κλῆ-ρος</b>. The words mentioned have all been connected with the root <b class="b2">u̯el-</b> [[turn]], [[wind]], [[twist]], in Greek.further in <b class="b3">εἰλέω</b> (cf. Frisk Eranos 40, 87ff.; <b class="b3">λῶμα</b>: <b class="b3">ἴλλω</b> as <b class="b3">πτῶμα</b>: <b class="b3">πίπτω</b>. But <b class="b3">εὐληρα</b> is Pre-Greek, s.v. - Diff. on <b class="b3">λῶμα</b> Scheftelowitz KZ 53, 268 (to Skt. <b class="b2">lūná-</b> <b class="b2">cut off</b>), Specht KZ 68, 126 (to <b class="b3">λώπη</b> with variation <b class="b3">π</b> : <b class="b3">μ</b>, which is wrong), Machek Studia in hon. Acad. d. Děcev 51 (to Tchech. [[lem]] [[fringe]]); all unconvincing. Cf. [[λωτις]], [[λωστυς]]. Not cognate is <b class="b3">λώδιξ</b> <b class="b2">woven cover</b> (from Lat. [[lōdīx]]; s. W.-Hofmann s. v.).