ἠπίαλος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Ephialtes<br />Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">ague, ague from fever</b> (Thgn., Ar., Hp. etc.; on th meaning Strömberg Wortstudien 82ff.); [[nightmare]];<br />Other forms: <b class="b3">ἐπίαλος</b> Alc. bei EM 434, 6 (prob. after <b class="b3">ἐπί</b>); cf. <b class="b3">ἠπίολος</b> [[moth]] (Arist. HA 605b 14; v. l. <b class="b3">-όλης</b>) with <b class="b3">ἠπιόλιον ῥιγοπυρέτιον</b> H.<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">ἠπιαλώδης</b> <b class="b2">ἠπ.-like</b> (Hp.), <b class="b3">ἠπιαλέω</b> <b class="b2">suffer from ἠπ.</b> (Ar., Arist.), <b class="b3">ἐξ-ηπιαλόομαι</b> <b class="b2">become ἠπ.</b> (Hp.). - <b class="b3">ἠπίολος</b> [[moth]] (Arist. HA 605b 14; v. l. <b class="b3">-όλης</b>) with <b class="b3">ἠπιόλιον ῥιγοπυρέτιον</b> H.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Acc. to Strömberg l.c. from <b class="b3">ἤπιος</b>, prop. "mild fever" a taboo-paraphrase; cf. the parallels mentioned there; an improbable hypothesis. (On <b class="b3">-αλο-</b> Chantraine Formation 246f.) From <b class="b3">ἠπίαλος</b> is <b class="b3">ἠπίολος</b> (better <b class="b3">-όλης</b>; after the nouns in <b class="b3">-όλης</b>) [[moth]] not to be separated, as is shown by the words adduced by Bugge BB 18, 166: Lith. <b class="b2">drugỹs</b> <b class="b2">(cold) fever, feverbird(?), butterfly</b> (to Russ. <b class="b2">drožátь</b> [[shiver]]), Alb. [[ethe]] [[fever]] with <b class="b2">ethëzë</b> "feverbird(?)", [[moth]]; s. further Immisch Glotta 6, 193; in folklore butterflies etc. bring fever. - Not with Vaniček a. o. (e. g. Güntert Kalypso 226f.) to Lat. [[vappō]] <b class="b2">moth?</b>. - See also on <b class="b3">Ἐφιαλτης</b>. - Given the variation <b class="b3">α</b>\/<b class="b3">ο</b> prob. a Pre-Greek word (Fur. 258, 342).