μαλάχη: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[mallow]]; on the vocalisation (assimilation?) Solmsen KZ 37, 16 f. (Hes.)<br />Other forms: also [[μολόχη]] (Epich. a. Antiph. ap. Ath. 2, 58d, SIG 1172,8 u.a.), [[μολάχη]] (Vaseinscr., Napels). [[μάλβακα]] acc. (Orac. ap. Luc. Alex. 25) points to <b class="b3">*μαλϜακ</b>\/<b class="b3">χ-</b>.<br />Derivatives: [[μαλάχιον]] (Ar. Fr. 320, 10), [[μολόχιον]] (Clem. Al.) <b class="b2">female neck-ornament</b> (also [[μάλακιον]] [Poll., H.] after [[μαλακός]]); <b class="b3">μαλάχιος ἰχθῦς ποιός</b> H.; after the colour (Strömberg Fischnamen 25); [[μολοχίτης]] (v.l. <b class="b3">-τις</b>) [[mallow-coloured stone]] (Plin., Isid.; Redard 57); [[μολόχινος]] <b class="b2">made from mallow-threads, mallow-coloured</b> (Peripl. M. Rubr.), [[μολόχινα]] n. pl. [[mallowclothes]] (ibd.) > Lat. [[molochina]] f. - Cret. GN <b class="b3">ἐμ Μολοχᾶντι</b> (Nom. <b class="b3">*Μολοχᾶς</b>; Schwyzer 528).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: With Lat. [[malva]] (from where [[Malve]] etc.) from a Mediterranean language; since long compared with Hebr. <b class="b2">mallūaḥ</b> name of a growth like salade; here also Georg. [[balba]]? Further, less certain connections in W.-Hofmann s.v.; s. also Cocco Arch. glottol. it. 40, 16ff. - The hapax [[μάλβαξ]] (Luc. Alex. 25 [[μάλβακα]] acc.), which Solmsen KZ 38, 447 adduced, of which the similarity with [[malva]] is remarkable, proves that the word is Pre-Greek; so the word was taken by Pre-Greek from Semitic.