πτύον: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: [[winnowing-shovel]] (Ν 588, A., S. in Fr., Theoc.).<br />Other forms: acc. to Ael. Dion. a.o. (young)att. [[πτέον]].<br />Derivatives: Dimin. [[πτυάριον]] n. (Hdn., EM) and <b class="b3">δίπτυον Κύπριοι μέτρον</b>, <b class="b3">οἱ δε τὸ ἡμιμέδιμνον</b> H.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Of old (s. Curtius 498) compared with Skt. <b class="b2">pávate</b>, <b class="b2">punā́ti</b> [[purify]], a.o. of corn, then also with OHG [[fowen]] (PGm. <b class="b2">*fawjan</b>) [[sieve]], [[purify corn]] (Prellwitz) (further WP. 2, 13, Pok. 827), which supposes secondary <b class="b3">πτ-</b> as in [[πτέρνη]], [[πτίσσω]]. The form [[πτέον]] only mentioned by grammarians and by them explained as Att. is unexplained (acc. to Kalén Quaest. gramm. gr. 13 ff. from [[πτύον]] through spontaneous change [[υ]] > [[ε]]; on this Schwyzer 183 f.), if one does not accept old full grade (with second. [[πτύον]] after [[πτύω]]?; cf. Curtius l.c.). -- The variation prob. points to a Pre-Greek word (Furnée 314).