ἀκτή: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=1.<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">promontory, rocky coast, rough shore, edge</b> (Il.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">ἀκταία</b> name of a plant (Plin.); Strömberg Pflanzennamen 115 (also on <b class="b3">ἄκτιον</b> and <b class="b3">ἀκτίνη</b>). - <b class="b3">ἄκτιος</b> surname of Pan (Theoc.) and Apollo (A. R.), <b class="b3">ἄκτιον</b> = <b class="b3">ἀκτή</b> (Ael.). - <b class="b3">ἀκτίτης</b> m. <b class="b2">who lives on the coast</b> (A. P.), <b class="b3">ἀκτ</b>. (<b class="b3">λίθος</b>) <b class="b2">stone from Piraeus or Argolis</b>; <b class="b3">πέτρος ἀκτῖτις</b> (Ath. Mitt. 31, 143). <b class="b3">ἀκτάζω</b> [[banquet]] (from *banquet on the shore?), Plu. 2, 668 b; or from 2. <b class="b3">ἁκτή</b>?<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: Derivation from <b class="b3">ἀκ-</b> [[sharp]] is "allenfalls möglich" (Frisk), but Fur. 127 compares <b class="b3">ὄχθη</b>, <b class="b3">-ος</b> which is quite convincing; so it is a substr. word. Cf. on <b class="b3">ἀκτή</b> 2.!<br />2.<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[corn]] (Il.), often <b class="b3">Δημήτερος</b> or <b class="b3">ἀλφίτου ἀκτή</b>; but DELG rightly points out that it cannot mean [[flour]] because of <b class="b3">ἀλφίτου ἀκτή</b>; cf. <b class="b3">ἀκτή τροφή</b> H.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: No trace of digamma. Fur. 127 compares <b class="b3">*ὀχθη</b>, in [[εὔοχθος]] (see s.v.); also 320 on <b class="b3">ὁχή</b>. This evidence cannot be ignored. So a substr. word. Skoda, Phytonymes 275-283 thinks that the word means <b class="b2">ear (of corn)</b> and belongs to <b class="b3">ἀκ-</b> [[sharp]].