γραψαῖος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: = [[κάραβος]] (first [[α]] long)crab (Diph. Siph. ap. Ath. 3, 106d).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Not with Chantraine, Rev. Ph. 1965, 211-214 from [[γράφω]]. With Frisk "Herkunft unbekannt, vielleicht Mittelmeerwort." He compared [[κάραβος]] (Epich.). Fur. 123, 154 adduced other forms for [[beetle]] and [[crab]]: Lat. [[scarabaeus]], which supposes <b class="b3">*σκαραβαῖος</b> (note the agreement with our word); [[σκορόβυλος]] (from <b class="b3">*σκορβ-</b>) and [[σκορπίος]]. So we have: proth. s-, var. [[α]]/[[ο]], [[β]]/[[π]], all of which point to a Pre-Greek word. Fur. assumes that <b class="b3">γραψ-</b> stands for <b class="b3">*γαρψ-</b>; the [[ψ]] is difficult. This gives a word <b class="b2">(s)karP-</b>. Further [[καράμβιος]] (Fur. 109), <b class="b3">καρβάρεοι κάραβοι</b> H.; 169 [[καραβίδες]]; [[κηραφίς]] and [[κεράμβυξ]], [[κεράμβηλον]] (with [[ε]]/[[α]] and prenasalization). Frisk points to the "allgemeine Ähnlichkeit mit ital. (<b class="b2">g)ravosta</b>, nhd. [[Krebs]], [[Krabbe]] und anderen germ. Wörtern ebenso wie mit [[κάραβος]]".