λοῖσθος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=1.<br />Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[the last]] (Ψ 536).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">λοίσθιος</b> (Pi., trag., Theoc., A. R.), (<b class="b3">τὸ</b>) <b class="b3">λοίσθιον</b> adv. [[at last]]. <b class="b3">λοισθήϊος</b> [[regarding the last]], (<b class="b3">τὰ</b>) <b class="b3">λοισθήϊα</b> [[the last price]] (Ψ 785, 751; as <b class="b3">ἀριστήϊον</b>, <b class="b3">-ϊα</b>; cf. Risch 46); <b class="b3">λοίσθημα τέλος</b>, <b class="b3">πέρας</b> H. (on the nominal deriv. Chantraine Form. 178). Unclear <b class="b3">λοίσθωνας τοὺς ἀκρατεῖς περὶ τὰ ἀφροδίσια</b> H. and <b class="b3">λοισθώνη ἡ θρασεῖα</b> Suid. - Details in Seiler Steigerungsformen 121; on <b class="b3">λοῖσθος</b>: <b class="b3">-ιος</b> also Chantraine 37.<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: No etymology. Al suggested explanations are unconvincing: from <b class="b3">*λοιhισ-θϜ-ος</b> "the weakest in the course" to <b class="b3">θέω</b> and Germ. <b class="b2">*laisiz</b> [[less]] in NEngl. [[less]] a. o. (Osthoff MU 6, 314ff.); from <b class="b3">*λοιhισ-τος</b> (WP. 2, 388; rejected by Schwyzer 537 n. 7); to Lith. [[léidžiu]], [[léisti]] [[let]], Lat. [[lūdus]] [[game]] etc. (Danielsson Altital. Stud. 4, 171ff.; Person Beitr. 2, 711 n. 1 a. 962, Brugmann IF 18, 433ff.; in details diff.); from <b class="b3">*λοhισ-τος</b> to Goth. <b class="b2">las-iws</b> [[weak]], [[powerless]] etc. (Solmsen IF 13, 140ff.). Diff. again Scheftelowitz KZ 56, 179: from <b class="b2">*sloidh-to-</b> to OCS <b class="b2">po-slědьńь</b> <b class="b3">ἔσχατος</b>, utmost, last' (from [[slědъ]] [[trace]]), Lith. [[slýsti]], [[slýdau]] [[glide]], <b class="b3">ὀλισθάνω</b> etc.; IE *(<b class="b2">s)leidh-</b>'slippery, glide' (WP. 2, 707f., Pok. 970f.).<br />2.<br />Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[beam]] (IG 22, 1673, 17; IVa), also as adjunct of <b class="b3">δόρυ</b>, <b class="b2">covering beam(?)</b> (E. Hel. 1597).<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Ngr. <b class="b3">λοστός</b> <b class="b2">lever, (Hebe-eisen?)</b> seems to suppose an orig. <b class="b3">λοϊσθός</b>, s. Georgacas Glotta 36, 168. Further unclear; guess by Persson Beitr. 2, 962 (on p. 711 n. 1): to Latv. [[laides]] [[Bretter am oberen Rand eines Kahnes]] (after Mühlenbach-Endzelin as "Eingelassenes, Ausgebreitetes" from [[laĩst]] [[let]]).