ἀγρός: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[field]]<br />Other forms: Myc. [[akoro]]; [[akoroqoro]] \/[[Agroqolos]]\/.<br />Compounds: [[ἄγροικος]] [[who lives in the country]] (<b class="b3">ἀγρο-Ϝοικ-</b>); in modern Greek this gave an oppositum [[γροικός]] = [[νοήμων]]; from this again [[γροικῶ]] [[understand]] (Hatzidakis, Glotta 14, 208f.). [[ἄγρωστις]] < <b class="b2">*h₂eǵro-h₁d-tis</b>, cf. [[νῆστις]]; Meier-Brügger, KZ 103 (1990) 33f.<br />Derivatives: [[ἄγριος]] [[agrestis]], [[wild]]. [[ἀγροιώτης]] (Il.) for [[ἀγρώτης]] will have arisen at verse end, Risch 32. On [[ἀγρέτης]] s. [[ἄγρα]]. [[ἀγρότερος]] [[wild]] from <b class="b2">from the field(s)</b> in opposition to cultivated places. [[ἄγρυπνος]] [[who sleeps outside]] developed into [[sleepless]], [[awake]] (cf. <b class="b3">ἄγρ-αυλος</b> <b class="b2">who has his bed\/lair in the field</b>)<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [6] <b class="b2">*h₂eǵros</b><br />Etymology: Old IE word, originally the uncultivated field: Skt. <b class="b2">ájra-</b>, Lat. [[ager]], Germ., Goth. [[akrs]], Arm. [[art]]. Connection with <b class="b2">*agō</b> [[drive]] is probable.