κύανος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">name of a dark-blue substance, enamel, lapis lazuli, blue copper carbonate</b> (Il.); also name of a bird (Arist., Ael.; s. Thompson Birds s. v.) and a plant, [[blue cornflower]] (Plin.);<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[kuwano]].<br />Compounds: Often as 1. member, e.g. <b class="b3">κυανό-πρῳρος</b> <b class="b2">with dark-blue prow</b> (Hom., B.; <b class="b3">-πρῴρειος</b> metr. lengthening at verse-end, Risch 120), <b class="b3">-χαίτης</b> [[with dark hair]] (Hom.; Risch Sprachgesch. u. Wortbed. 389 ff.), <b class="b3">-πεπλος</b> [[with dark cloth]] (h. Cer., Hes.; Treu Von Homer zur Lyrik 244).<br />Derivatives: [[κυάνεος]] ([[υ]] metr. length.) <b class="b2">made of κ.</b>, usu. [[dark-blue]] (Il.; on the meaning Capelle RhM 101, 10 a. 35).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: As Anat. LW [loanword] identical with Hitt. <b class="b2">kuu̯anna(n</b>)- <b class="b2">copper(blue), ornamental stone</b> (Friedrich Wb. after Götze). Cf. Danka and Witczak. IES 25 (1997) from <b class="b2">*ḱwm̥Hos</b>.