πολιός: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[whitishly grey]], esp. of hair, also of foaming seas (ep. Il., also hell.).<br />Other forms: adj.<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[poriwa]] n. pl. (= sg.?) \/[[poliwa]]\/.<br />Compounds: Compp. e.g. <b class="b3">πολιο-κρόταφος</b> [[with grey temples]] (Θ 518 a. o.), <b class="b3">ὑπο-</b>, <b class="b3">ἐπι-πόλιος</b> [[grizzled]], [[mixed with grey]] (Anacr. resp. D.), prob. backformations (cf. [[ἐπιπολιόομαι]] below), s. Strömberg Prefix Studies 101 ff.; on <b class="b3">μεσαι-πόλιος</b> s. [[μέσος]].<br />Derivatives: 1. Fem. [[πολιάς]] (Luc. Lex.); 2. the pl.name [[πόλιον]] n. [[Teucrium polium or creticum]] (Thphr., Nic., Dsc.), after the colour of the flower (Dsc. 3, 1 10); 3. the abstracts [[πολιότης]] f. [[greyness]] (Arist.), [[πολιά]] (from <b class="b3">πολι-ιά</b>) f. <b class="b2">id.</b>, also as disease (Arist.); 4. the denomin. a. <b class="b3">πολι-αίνομαι</b> [[to become whitish]], of the sea (A. Pers. 109; lyr.); b. <b class="b3">-όομαι</b>, <b class="b3">-όω</b>, also w. <b class="b3">ἐπι-</b>, <b class="b3">προ-</b>, [[to become]], [[make grey]] (Arist.) with <b class="b3">-ωσις</b> f. [[the becoming grey]] (Arist.), <b class="b3">-ωμα</b> n. [[greyness]] (Eust.); c. <b class="b3">-άζω</b> [[to become grey]] (sch.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [804] <b class="b2">*poliwo-</b> [[gray]]<br />Etymology: With [[πολιός]] is perh. the semantically exactly agreeing Arm. <b class="b2">ali-k`</b>, gen. [[ale-ac]] pl. <b class="b2">the (white) crests of waves, white hair, white beard</b> also formally identical (IE <b class="b2">*polii̯o-</b>, <b class="b2">-ā</b>), in any case closely related. As basis one may assume <b class="b3">*πολι-Ϝός</b> (Schwyzer 472 w. lit.); Further s. [[πελιδνός]], [[πελιός]]. Extensively on [[πολιός]] a. cogn. Reiter Die griech. Bez. der Farben weiß, grau und braun 54ff. -- But <b class="b2">*pl̥ii̯o-</b> means rather <b class="b2">*pl̥Hii̯o-</b> which would not give [[πολιός]] (it requires rather <b class="b2">*pol(H)ii̯o-</b>). -- DELG writes that the word is [[evidently]] cognate with [[πελιός]], which seems contradicted by the meaning (dunkelfarben).