πέζα: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[instep]], usu. metaph. <b class="b2">foot-end, lower edge, border of a garment, coast, net, mountain range etc.</b> (Ω 272, medic., hell.).<br />Derivatives: Independent in poet. compp., e.g. <b class="b3">ἀργυρό-πεζα</b> adj. f. <b class="b2">with silver (i.e. white) feet</b>, of Thetis a.o. (Il.), m. <b class="b3">-πεζος</b> (AP). On [[τράπεζα]] s. v. Unclear <b class="b3">διά-πεζος</b>, of woman's clothes (Callix.) -- Enlarged <b class="b3">πεζ-ίς</b>, <b class="b3">-ίδος</b> f. [[seam]] (Ar., Att. inscr.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [790] *ped- [[foot]]<br />Etymology: Deriv with ι̯<b class="b3">α-</b>suffix from the word for [[foot]] (s. [[πούς]]), so name of smhing that belongs to the foot or smhing that refers to the foot. Formation like [[γλῶττα]] a.o. (Schwyzer 473 f., Chantraine Form. 97 ff.). Beside [[πέζα]] with ι̯<b class="b3">α-</b>suffix there is in Germ. an corresponding formation with <b class="b2">ī-</b>suffix (cf. on [[λύσσα]]; s. also [[πέδιλον]]): PGm. <b class="b2">*fet-ī</b> f. in OWNo. [[fit]], gen. [[fit-jar]] [[web]]; perh. also in OHG [[fizza]], NHG [[Fitze]] [[winding]], [[thread]], OHG also of the ends of the warps, as in Norw. [[fit]].