λέχριος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[slanting]], [[crosswise]] (S., E., X.), adv. [[λέχρις]] <b class="b2">id.</b> (Antim., A. R.; after [[ἄχρις]], [[μέχρις]] , Schwyzer 620); also [[λικριφίς]] [[cross-wise]], [[sideways]] ([[λ]]. <b class="b3">ἀΐξας Ξ</b> 463, τ451), in spite of [[λεκροί]], [[λικροί]] (s.below) from <b class="b3">*λεχρι-φίς</b> with breathdissimilation and vowelassimilation (Schwyzer 256 with Brugmann IF 27, 265; acc. to 351 vowelweakening; for vowelassimilation also Petersen Lang. 14, 56); on the oxytonesis Wackernagel Gött. Nachr. 1914, 26f. (= Kl. Schr. 2, 1128f.); details in Bechtel Lex. s.v.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: The basis of [[λέχριος]] may have been a <b class="b3">ρ(ο</b>)-stem <b class="b3">*λεχρ(ο</b>)- of unknown meaning; adducing [[λεκροί]] [[beside]] <b class="b3">λικροί οἱ ὄζοι τῶν ἐλαφείων κεράτων</b>, with further <b class="b3">λί(γ)ξ πλάγιος</b> H., and of [[λοξός]] [[slanting]] requires an orig. <b class="b3">*λεκ-σ-ρ-</b> (cf. Schwyzer 327); further s. [[λοξός]]. Cf. also on [[λεκάνη]], [[λέκος]]. The forms [[λεκροί]] / [[λικροί]] and also <b class="b3">λι(γ)ξ</b> seem to point to Pre-Greek forms, to which we should add [[λικριφίς]]. Assuming IE forms with and without <b class="b3">-σ-</b> side by side is much more difficult than assumeing [[κ]]/[[χ]] (and [[ε]]/[[ι]] and prenasalisation) for Pre-Greek.