πάλαι: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: Adv.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">of old, formerly, long ago, bygone, earlier</b> (Il.; supposition on the development of the meaning in Treu Von Hom. zur Lyrik 127).<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[parajo]] /[[palaios]]/.<br />Compounds: Compp., e.g. <b class="b3">παλαι-γενής</b> [[born long ago]], [[highly aged]] (Il.). <b class="b3">ἔκ-παλαι</b> [[long since]], [[long ago]] (hell.).<br />Derivatives: [[παλαιός]] [[old]], [[ancient]], [[former]] (Il.) with <b class="b3">παλαι-ότης</b> f. [[age]], [[ancientness]] (Att.), <b class="b3">-όομαι</b>, <b class="b3">-όω</b> <b class="b2">to grow old, to make age, to declare archaic</b> (Hp., Pl., Arist.); from it <b class="b3">παλαί-ωσις</b> f. [[aging]] (Hp., LXX, Str.), <b class="b3">-ώματα</b> pl. [[antiquity]] (LXX). Comp. forms <b class="b3">παλαί-τερος</b>, <b class="b3">-τατος</b> (Pi.), also <b class="b3">παλαιό-τερος</b> (Ψ 788 [metr. condit.] etc.; Schwyzer 534 w. n.6), <b class="b3">-τατος</b> (Pl.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [640] <b class="b2">*kʷel-</b>? [[far]]<br />Etymology: Formation (except for the accent) like [[χαμαί]], [[παραί]]; so prop. a frozen case-form (dat.?, s. Schwyzer 548 w. lit.). Ablauting [[τῆλε]] [[far away]], [[far]] (s. v.), Boeot [[πήλυι]] <b class="b2">id.</b>; the spatial meaning is evidently the older one. Skt. <b class="b2">caramá-</b> [[the utmost]], [[the last]], which has been connected with it, forms a connection with [[τέλος]] [[end]], [[goal]]; so [[πάλαι]] orig. [[at the end]] (prop. [[at the turning point of the career]]), [[in the distance]], <b class="b2">in remote time(s)</b>. It is unnecessary to assume a separate <b class="b2">*kʷel-</b> [[far away]] (WP. 1, 517, Pok. 640). The Mycenaean form presents difficulties for a labio-velar. -- Cf. [[πάλιν]] and [[πέλομαι]]. - The <b class="b3">-α-</b> has not yet been explained; one might think of <b class="b2">*kʷl̥h₂-ei</b>.