σκάζω: Difference between revisions

|Definition=only pres. and impf., <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[limp]], [[halt]], <span class="bibl">Il.19.47</span>; ἐκ πολέμου <span class="bibl">11.811</span>, cf. <span class="title">Com.Adesp.</span>610, Plu.2.317e: metaph., <b class="b3">ἀκέσασθαι τὸ σκάζον</b> make good <b class="b2">the damage</b>, Men.Prot.p.22 D.; <b class="b3">ὁρῶ τὰ ἡμέτερα σκάζοντα</b>, of parasites, <span class="bibl">Alciphr.3.50</span>; σ. ἀμφοτέροις ἡ κρίσις Chor. in <span class="title">Rh.Mus.</span> 49.504; πρὸς τὴν θεραπείαν <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Merc.Cond.</span>39</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b3">σκάζων, οντος, ὁ</b>,= <b class="b3">χωλίαμβος</b>, the iambic verse of Hipponax, with a spondee in the last place, σκάζοντα μέτρα <span class="title">AP</span>7.405 (Phil.). (Cf. Skt. [[kháñjati]] 'limp', Germ. [[hinken]].) </span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: v.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">to limp</b> (ep. [poet.] Il., also Hdt., LXX).<br />Compounds: Also with <b class="b3">ἐπι-</b>, <b class="b3">ὑπο-</b>, (only pres. a. ipf.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">σκασμός</b> m. <b class="b2">the limping</b> (Aq.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [930] <b class="b2">*skeng-</b>, <b class="b2">skn̥g-</b> [[to limp]], [[slanting]]<br />Etymology: Since Fick BB 6, 214 connected with Skt. <b class="b2">khañjati</b> [[limp]] (MInd. for <b class="b2">*skañj-</b>?; s. Mayrhofer w. lit.) and with Germ., Dan. [[skank]] <b class="b2">limping, esp. of horses</b>, OWNo. [[skakkr]] [[slanting]] (PGm. <b class="b2">*skanka-</b>). Besides without <b class="b2">s-</b> and with orig. <b class="b2">e-</b>vowel Germ., e.g. OHG [[hinkan]] [[limp]]. As the absence of palatalition in Skt. <b class="b2">khañj-</b>, if for <b class="b2">*skañj-</b>, prob. points to a, for <b class="b3">σκάζω</b> beside the gener. assumed basic form <b class="b2">skn̥g-i̯ō</b> also <b class="b2">*skang-i̯ō</b> is a possibility. An IE <b class="b2">a-</b>vowel would not surprise in this popular word. Germ. [[hinkan]], which also deviates in anlaut, wouls then be unorig.; s. on this Sommer Sprachgesch. u. Wortbed. 425 ff., where for the whole group, which has richly developed in Germ. (Sommer l.c., WP. 2, 564f., Pok. 930), nominal origin, esp. a body-part name ('shank' v. t.), is rightly considered. -- Cf. [[σκαμβός]].