κῶλον: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">member of an animal or a man, esp. leg</b> (IA.), also metaph., e.g. of a part of a periode (Rhet.), often plur., a. o. = [[corpse]] (LXX, NT).<br />Compounds: Several compp., e.g. <b class="b3">ἰσό-κωλος</b> [[with equal members]] (Arist.), <b class="b3">ἀκρο-κώλια</b> [[extremities]], <b class="b3">ὑπο-κώλια</b> [[thigh of an animal]]<br />Derivatives: Diminut. <b class="b3">κωλάριον</b> (Ael.), <b class="b3">κωλύφιον</b> (Phryn., Plaut.; cf. Lat. [[colyphium]]); <b class="b3">κωλέα</b>, <b class="b3">-ῆ</b> (Att.), <b class="b3">κωλήν</b>, <b class="b3">-ῆνος</b> f. (IA.), <b class="b3">κωλεός</b> f. (Epich., Hp.) <b class="b2">bones of the hip with its flesh, ham</b> (Solmsen Wortforsch. 124); <b class="b3">κώληψ</b>, <b class="b3">-ηπος</b> f. [[hollow of the knee]] (Ψ 726, Nic.); prop. ompound with <b class="b3">ἅπτω</b>? (Bechtel Lex. s.v. with Wackernagel), with suffixchange <b class="b3">κώληξ</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (sch.) [this shows that it does prob. not contain a part of <b class="b3">ἄπτω</b>]; <b class="b3">κωλώτης</b> m. [[lizard]] (Hp., Arist., Babr.; Redard Les noms grecs en <b class="b3">-της</b> 8; because he can break off his tail, which will grow on(?); cf. Lat. [[lacerta]] to [[lacertus]] (see W.-Hofmann s. v.); also Lidén KZ 40, 260 f. on Skt. [[pallī]] <b class="b2">small house-lizard</b> (to <b class="b2">pad-</b>'foot'; diff. Mayrhofer KEWA s. v.) and Holthausen KZ 71, 60 (Westfal. [[hacke-molle]] [[salamander]] to [[hacke]] [[pricks]]). Denomin. <b class="b3">κωλίζομαι</b> [[be disjointed in κῶλα]] (late).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: No cognate. Related words are perhaps found in Slavic and Baltic, but their relation to <b class="b3">κῶλον</b> cannot be specified: OCS, Russ. <b class="b2">kolěno</b> [[knee]], [[stem]], [[lineage]], Russ. [[člen]] <b class="b2">member, body-part</b>, Lith. <b class="b2">kelỹs</b> [[knee]]; a fullgrade aorist with <b class="b2">o-</b>voc. is suspected by Specht KZ 55, 19 in <b class="b3">κόλσασθαι ἱκετεῦσαι</b> H. (but is this cognate?) - Details in WP. 2, 597 ff., Pok. 928. Vasmer and Fraenkel Wb. s. vv. - Cf. also <b class="b3">σκέλος</b>. - Unclear. One notes that Pre-Greek has a suffix <b class="b3">-ηξ</b> (<b class="b3">νάρθηξ</b>, <b class="b3">κύμηξ</b>).