σανδαράχη: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=-άχη<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">sandarac, red arsenic sulphide, realgar, red orpiment</b> (Hp., Arist., Thphr. a.o.), [[bee-bread]] (Arist.).<br />Compounds: <b class="b3">σανδαρακ-ούργιον</b> n. [[sandarac pit]] (Str.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">-ινος</b> [[sandarac-coloured]], [[bright red]] (Hdt. [[α]].[[ο]].), <b class="b3">-ίζω</b> <b class="b2">to be sandarac-coloured</b> (Dsc.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Orient. LW [loanword] of unknown source. Nehring Glotta 14. 182 reminds of the PlN [[Σανδαράκη]] (harbour-town on the Black-Sea). Acc. to a quite uncertain supposition by Uhlenbeck PBBeitr. 19, 327ff. from OInd. <b class="b2">*candra-rāga-</b> [[moon-coloured]] (?), which Cuendet (s. Mayrhofer s. [[candanaḥ]]) would like to change in a as hypothetic <b class="b2">*candana-rāga-</b> [[sand-coloured]]. -- The variation [[κ]]\/[[χ]] points to a Pre-Greek word. Cf. on [[σάνδυξ]].