κώδεια: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[head]], [[bulb of garlic]] (Ξ 499, Nic.), [[κώδεα]], <b class="b3">-υια</b>, <b class="b3">-ύα</b>, <b class="b3">-ία</b> (Delos, Att. inscr., Arist., Thphr.); also other plants and comparable objects.<br />Derivatives: [[κώδυον]] <b class="b2">head of purse-tassels</b> (Thphr.; as [[κάρυον]] : [[καρύη]]).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Unexplained. After Scheftelowitz BB 28, 148 to [[κῶος]] [[hollow]], [[prison]]; against Kalén Quaest. gramm. graecae 24, where also extensively on the diff. forms ([[κώδυια]] oldest form). To Lith. <b class="b2">kuõdas</b> [[crown of the head]], [[bush of feathers]] (by Prellwitz wrongly compared with [[κώδεια]]) s. Fraenkel Wb. s. <b class="b2">kuodẽlis</b>. - Fur. 195, 198 Pre-Greek because of the variants; he compares words for [[cup]], e.g. [[κώδων]] [[closk]] (s. v.), Etr. [[qutum]]. Cf. Beekes, FS Watkins (1998) 25f., Beekes, Pre-Greek, Suffixes sub <b class="b3">-αι-</b>\/<b class="b3">-ε(ι</b>)-.<br />See also: Vgl. [[κώδων]].