πύελος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[water-trough]] (with soaked corn?, τ 553; where grain is washed), [[bathtub]] (Hp., com., pap.), [[coffin]] (hell.; cf. Schulze Q. 515 a. Kl. Schr. 380 n.1).<br />Other forms: hell. u. late [[πύαλος]].<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">πυέλ-ιον</b> n. [[coffin]] (Crete, Diogenian.), <b class="b3">-ίς</b> (<b class="b3">-αλίς</b>), <b class="b3">-ίδος</b> f. <b class="b2">id.</b>; also <b class="b2">setting of a jewel, eye-socket etc.</b> (Att., hell.); <b class="b3">-ώδης</b> [[trough-like]], [[hollow]] (Arist.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin](X)<br />Etymology: Dissimilated from <b class="b3">*πλυ-ελος</b>? Nomen instr. or loci to [[πλύνω]] (<b class="b3">πλυ-τός</b>, <b class="b3">πλύ-σις</b> a.o.). -- Interpretation by Masing, to be rejected; s. Kretschmer Glotta 6, 308. Cf. Renehan, Class. Rev. N.S. 18 (1968) 133. -- The etymol. from [[πλύω]] is almost certainly wrong; it is almost certainly a Pre-Greek word (though the variation <b class="b3">-ελος</b>\/<b class="b3">-αλος</b> (late) is not very significant.