στῖφος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">crowd packed closely together, troop of warriors, ships etc.</b> (Hdt., A., Ar., Th., X. etc.).<br />Derivatives: Besides <b class="b3">στιφρός</b> <b class="b2">packed closely together, tight, compact</b> (Ar., X., Arist., hell. a. late) with <b class="b3">-ότης</b> f. [[compactness]] (middl. com.), <b class="b3">-άω</b> [[to harden]] (Ath., Eust.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: With <b class="b3">στῖφος</b> : <b class="b3">στιφρός</b> cf. e.g. <b class="b3">αἶσχος</b> : <b class="b3">αἰσχρός</b> , <b class="b3">κῦδος</b> : <b class="b3">κυδρός</b>. To the family of <b class="b3">στείβω</b> with vowellength as in <b class="b3">στίβη</b> [[hoarfrost]]; without direct agreement outside Greek. An IE aspirate (= Gr. <b class="b3">φ</b>) is prob. also found in some semantically deiviating Balto-Slav. words, e.g. Lith. <b class="b2">stíebas</b> <b class="b2">mast(tree), pillar, stalk</b>, <b class="b2">stáibis</b> [[lower shank]], [[supporting post]] [note that the Baltic acute points to a [[b]], not [[bh]]], OCS [[stьblь]], Russ. <b class="b2">stébelь</b> [[stalk]], thus in Skt. <b class="b2">stibhi-</b> m. <b class="b2">bunch of flowers, bundle</b>. Further s. [[στείβω]]; cf. [[στριφνός]]. -- From <b class="b3">στῖφος</b> Lat. <b class="b2">*stīpus</b> in [[stīpāre]]? (Thierfelder by letter). -- From <b class="b3">στείβω</b> neither the <b class="b3">φ</b> not the vowellength can be explained. So the word must be Pre-Greek.