ἄτρακτος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m. (f.)<br />Meaning: [[spindle]] (Hdt.), also [[arrow]] (S., acc. Th. 4, 40 Laconian).<br />Other forms: [[ἄδρακτος]] H. (LSJ Supp.), Gloss.<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">ἀτρακτυλ(λ)ίς</b>, <b class="b3">-ίδος</b> [[spindle-thistel]], [[Carthamus lanatus]] (Arist.). [[ἀτρακίς]] kind of thistle (Strömberg Pflanz. 105).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Compared with Skt. <b class="b2">tarku-</b> [[spindle]]. The connection with Lat. [[torqueo]], and now Myc. [[toroqejomeno]] \/[[trokʷeiomenos]]\/, is impossible (it would have given [[π]], not [[κ]] with Schwyzer 299). The ending has been compared with [[στρατός]], [[σπάρτον]], but remains strange. The [[ἀ-]] would also remain unexplained. - Unclear also Alb. [[tjerr]] [[to spin]]. So rather a loan (from the substr.); perhaps confirmed by [[ἄδρακτος]] and [[ἀτρακίς]], if the variation [[κ]]\/[[κτ]] is old and not due to simplification; for <b class="b3">-τος</b> cf. [[ἄσφαλτος]] and Chantr. Form. 300f. Skt. <b class="b2">tarku-</b> will be unrelated. - Not to [[ἀτρεκής]].