ἐλαχύς: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[small]] (Call. Hek. 3 K.)<br />Other forms: <b class="b3">ἐλάχεια</b> hAP 197 (on the accent Wackernagel Gött. Nachr. 1914, 115f. = Kl. Schr. 2, 1172f., Schwyzer 379; ι 116, κ 509 as v. l. to <b class="b3">λάχεια</b>; cf. Leumann Hom. Wörter 54; , <b class="b3">ἐλαχύ</b> (AP); masc. also <b class="b3">ἔλαχος</b> (Call., s. Leumann l. c.);<br />Compounds: As 1. member in <b class="b3">ἐλαχυ-πτέρυξ</b>, [<b class="b3">ἐλα]χύ-νωτος</b> (Pi.).<br />Derivatives: Comp. <b class="b3">ἐλάσσων</b>, <b class="b3">-ττων</b> (Il.), Sup. <b class="b3">ἐλάχιστος</b> (Ion.-Att.). - From <b class="b3">ἐλάσσων</b>, <b class="b3">-ττων</b> (Schwyzer 731f.): denomin. <b class="b3">ἐλασσόομαι</b>, <b class="b3">-ττόομαι</b> [[become smaller]], [[be inferior]], [[be damaged]] (Ion.-Att.), <b class="b3">-όω</b> [[diminish]], [[damage]] (Lys., Isok.) with <b class="b3">ἐλάττωσις</b> [[diminution]], [[disadvantage]], [[want]], [[loss]] (Antipho Soph., Pl. Def., Arist.) and <b class="b3">ἐλαττωτικός</b> [[not insisting on his rights]], [[diminishing]] (Arist.), <b class="b3">ἐλάσσωμα</b>, <b class="b3">-ττωμα</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (D.). From <b class="b3">ἔλασσον-</b>, <b class="b3">-ττον-</b> : <b class="b3">ἐλαττον-άκις</b> [[less often]] (Pl., Arist., after <b class="b3">πλεον-ακις</b>), <b class="b3">ἐλαττον-ότης</b> [[be inferior]] (Iamb.; beside <b class="b3">μειζον-ότης</b>); <b class="b3">ἐλασσον-έω</b>, <b class="b3">-ττονέω</b> <b class="b2">have or give less, to be defective</b> (LXX, pap.), <b class="b3">ἐλαττον-όω</b> [[diminish]] (LXX). From <b class="b3">ἐλάχιστος</b> : <b class="b3">ἐλαχιστ-άκις</b> [[very rarely]] (Hp.), <b class="b3">ἐλαχιστ-ιαῖος</b> [[of smallest size]], [[infinitesimal]] (Diog. Oen. 2).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [660] <b class="b2">*h₁lngʷʰu-</b> [[light]], [[quick]]<br />Etymology: Old adjective, identical with Skt. <b class="b2">laghú-</b>, <b class="b2">raghú-</b> [[quick]], [[light]], [[small]], Av. <b class="b2">ragu-</b> [[quick]]; from an IE zero grade <b class="b2">*h₁ln̥gʷ</b>ʰ<b class="b2">-ú-</b>. The full grade [[h₁lengʷ]]ʰ- in Av. comp. <b class="b2">rǝnǰyō</b> (with analogical superlativ <b class="b2">rǝnǰišta-</b>), in Lith. <b class="b2">lẽngvas</b> and in Goth. [[leihts]] [[leicht]], if, as prob., from PGm. <b class="b2">*linχta-</b>, IE <b class="b2">*h₁lengʷ</b>ʰ<b class="b2">-to-</b>. Toch. B <b class="b2">laṅktse</b> <b class="b2">light.</b> Without nasal, with <b class="b2">e-</b>vowel Lat. [[levis]] [[light]], [[small]], [[quick]], with reduced vowel OCS <b class="b2">lьgъ-kъ</b> [[light]], with <b class="b2">a-</b>vowel Celt., e. g. OIr. comp. [[laigiu]] [[smaller]], [[worse]], PCelt. <b class="b2">*lag-i̯ōs</b> (positive <b class="b2">bec(c</b>)). These forms cannot be all at once explained. W.-Hofmann s. [[levis]], Fraenkel Lit. et. Wb. s. <b class="b2">lẽngvas</b>, Vasmer Russ. et. Wb. s. <b class="b2">lëgkij</b> (2, 24). - The vowellength in <b class="b3">ἐλάσσων</b> is secondary, s. Schwyzer 538 w. n. 4; also Seiler Steigerungsformen 43f.