δόρπον: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: [[evening-meal]] (Il.).<br />Other forms: (hell. and late also <b class="b3">-ος</b> m.)<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[doqeja]] \/[[dorkʷeja]]\/?<br />Derivatives: [[δόρπιον]] <b class="b2">time for ..</b> (Hp. Epid. 5, 22 v. l.), [[δόρπιος]] <b class="b2">belonging to the δ.</b> (Nonn.); [[δορπήϊα]] n. pl. [[food]], [[meal]] (Nic.; cf. [[ξεινήϊα]]), [[Δορπία]] f. <b class="b2">evening before a feast, esp. the Apaturia</b> (Hdt.). Denomin. [[δορπέω]] [[take the evening meal]] (Hom.), <b class="b3">δορπιάζειν δειπνεῖν</b> H. (cf. <b class="b3">συμποσι-άζειν</b>). - [[δορπηστός]] m. (scil. [[καιρός]]) <b class="b2">time for..</b> (Hp.), cf. [[δειπνηστός]] s. [[δεῖπνον]].<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [00] <b class="b2">*dorkʷo-</b> [[evening meal]]?<br />Etymology: [[δόρπον]] can be combined with Alb. <b class="b2">darkë</b> <b class="b2">evening(meal)</b> as <b class="b2">*dorkʷ̯-o-</b>, Mann Lang. 26, 384f., Porzig Gliederung 178. Further connections are unknown. Could the word be Pre-Greek?