μόχθος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[exertion]], [[difficulty]], [[distress]], [[misery]] (Hes. Sc., Pi., trag., mostly poet.).<br />Compounds: often as 2. member, e.g. [[πολύμοχθος]] = [[with much exertion]] (trag., Arist.), also as building-technical expression in [[πρόμοχθοι τὰ προβεβλημένα τῶν τοίχων]] (H., also Delos IIa).<br />Derivatives: 1. [[μοχθηρός]] = [[laborious]], [[miserable]], [[worthless]], [[bad]] with [[μοχθηρία]] = [[bad condition]] (IA.), [[μοχθόομαι]] [[be laborious]] (Aq.). 2. [[μοχθήεις]] (Nic.), [[μοχθώδης]] (Vett. Val.) [[id]]. Verbs: 1. [[μοχθέω]], also with [[ἐκμοχθέω]] a.o., [[exert oneself]], [[exist with difficulty]] (poet. since K 106) with [[μοχθήματα]] pl. [[exertions]] (trag.); 2. [[μοχθίζω]] [[id]]. (poet. since Β 273; metr. variant of 1. s. Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1. 95, Shipp Studies 95); 3. [[μοχθόω]] = [[tire]] (Aq.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: To [[μόγος]], [[μογέω]] (s.v.) with expressive enlarging [[θ]], cf. [[ἄχθος]], [[ὄχθος]], [[βρόχθος]] a.o. (Schwyzer 510f., Chantraine Form. 366f.)? Basic forms like *[[μόγσθος]] (Schulze KZ 28, 270 n.l = Kl. Schr. 437 n. 1 [p. 438]) or *[[μόγστος]] are hard to explain. -- To be rejected Pisani Ist. Lomb. 73, 528 (to Skt. [[myakṣ-]] [[stick fast]]); cf. Belardi Doxa 3, 214, W.-Hofinann s. [[mōlēs]]. - If the words show a variation [[γ]]/[[χθ]], it will be Pre-Greek. Fur. 319f., 388, who connects [[μοττίας]] ᾡ̃ [[στρέφουσι τῶν ῥυτήρων τὸν ἄξονα]] H. as Cretan from *[[μοκτίας]].