μολοβρός: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: scornful or ignominious qualification, by the goat-herd Melanthos and the beggar Iros referred to the unknown Odysseus (ρ 219, σ 26; after this Lyc. 775); also of the head ([[κεφαλή]]) of a plant in unknown meaning (Nic. Th. 662).<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[moroqoro]] \/[[mologʷros]]\/<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">μολόβρ-ιον</b> n. <b class="b2">the young of a swine</b> (Ael.), <b class="b3">-ίτης ὗς</b> <b class="b2">ds.</b> (Hippon.). -- PN [[Μόλοβρος]] m. (Th. 4, 8, 9; Lacon.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Popular word, because of the uncertain meaning hard to assess. Several proposals of doubtful value from old and new times: <b class="b3">ἀπὸ τοῦ μολεῖν καὶ παραγίνεσθαι πρὸς βορὰν καὶ τροφήν</b> (sch. Lyc. 775); from [[μέλας]], [[μολύνω]] and <b class="b3">τὰ ὄβρια</b>, [[ὀβρίκαλα]] <b class="b2">the young of animals</b> (Curtius 370); to <b class="b3">βλιβρόν λαγρόν</b> H. and [[βλάβη]] (Fick BB 28, 97; agreeing Bechtel Lex. [[sub verbo|s.v.]] and Hist. Personennamen 502); from <b class="b3">*μολός</b> [[runner]], [[shoot]] (cf. [[μολεύω]]) and [[βορά]] (Grošelj Živa Ant. 2, 212f.); s. also Reynen Herm. 85, 142 w. n. 2. - Neumann HS 105(1992) 75-80 derives it form <b class="b3">*μολος</b>, Skt. málam [[dirt]] (from <b class="b2">*melo-</b> or <b class="b2">*molHo-</b>) and the root <b class="b2">*gʷrh₃-</b> [[eat]] in [[βιβρώσκω]]; but -<b class="b2">*gʷr̥Ho-</b> would have given <b class="b3">*-βαρο-</b>. Rather a Pre-Greek word.