ὀμίχλη: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(<span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> ὁμ- <span class="bibl">Eust.117.33</span> and v. infr.; a form ὄμιχλ-λα is condemned by <span class="bibl">Hdn. <span class="title">Philet.</span>p.445</span> P.), ἡ, [[mist]], [[fog]] (not so thick as [[νέφος]] or [[νεφέλη]], <span class="bibl">Arist. <span class="title">Mete.</span>346b33</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Mu.</span>394a19</span>), Hom. only in Il.; εὖτ' ὄρεος κορυφῇσι Νότος κατέχευεν ὀμίχλην <span class="bibl">3.10</span>; so Thetis rises from the sea, ἠΰτ' ὀμίχλη <span class="bibl">1.359</span>; ὁ. καὶ δρόσος <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Nu.</span>330</span>; κονίης ὀμίχλην <span class="bibl">Il.13.336</span>; ὀμίχλη ἐγένετο <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>4.2.7</span>, etc. : metaph., ὄσσοις ὁμίχλα προσῇξε πλήρης δακρύων <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>145</span>(lyr.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">cloud-like darkness, gloom</b>, κατὰ νυκτὸς ὀ. <span class="title">AP</span>5.228 (Maced.), cf. <span class="bibl">Orph.<span class="title">A.</span>521</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[the steam of cookery]], <span class="bibl">Mnesim.4.64</span>. (Cf. Lith. <b class="b2">miglà</b> 'mist.)</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[fog]] (Il., A., Ar., X.);<br />Other forms: (Att. <b class="b3">ὁ-</b> w. sec. asp., cf. Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 187).<br />Compounds: <b class="b3">ἀν-όμιχλος</b> [[without fog]] (Arist.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">ὀμιχλ-ώδης</b> [[hazy]] (hell.), <b class="b3">-ήεις</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Nonn.). <b class="b3">-όομαι</b> (hell.), <b class="b3">-αίνω</b> (Lyd.) [[to become vapour]].<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [712] <b class="b2">*h₃migh-la</b> [[fog]]<br />Etymology: Identical with a Balto-Slav. word for [[fog]], e.g. Lith. <b class="b2">miglà</b>, OCS [[mъgla]] f., IE <b class="b2">*mighlā</b> (<b class="b3">ὀ-</b> prothet., suffix as in [[νεφέλη]]); beside this old <b class="b2">l-</b>formation (to which also Dutch dial. [[miggelen]] [[missle]]) stands partly a zero grade rootnoun in Skt. <b class="b2">mih-</b> f. [[fog]], partly a fullgrade <b class="b2">o-</b>stem, e.g. Skt. <b class="b2">meghá-</b> m. [[cloud]]; IE <b class="b2">*migh-</b> resp. <b class="b2">*moigho-</b>. More forms in WP. 2, 247, Pok. 712, Fraenkel s. <b class="b2">miglà</b>, Vasmer s. <b class="b2">mglá</b>; see also Porzig Gliederung 161 a. 169 f. -- To be kept separate [[ὀμείχω]] [[irinate]] a. cogn. (IE <b class="b2">*h₃meiǵh-</b>, with palatal). On [[ἀμιχθαλόεσσα]] [[sub verbo|s.v.]] (also Ruijgh L'élém. ach. 145).