σκύλλω: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: v.<br />Meaning: approx. <b class="b2">to lacerate, to tear up, to flay</b>, mostly metaph. <b class="b2">to pester, to tire, to bother, to trouble, to vex</b>, midd.-pass. [[to strain]], aor. act. [[to infest]], [[to plunder]] (pap., inscr., NT, late prose; rarely poet.: A., Nic., AP; s. bel.).<br />Other forms: esp. aor. <b class="b3">σκῦλ-αι</b>, pass. <b class="b3">-ῆναι</b> (<b class="b3">-ηθῆναι</b> Eust.); fut. <b class="b3">-ήσομαι</b>, perf. midd. [[ἔσκυλμαι]].<br />Compounds: Rarely w. <b class="b3">ἀπο-</b>, <b class="b3">ἐπι-</b>, <b class="b3">προ-</b>, <b class="b3">συν-</b>.<br />Derivatives: 1. <b class="b3">σκυλ-μός</b> m. [[bothering]], [[tribulation]] (hell. a. late), [[the rending]] (sch.) with <b class="b3">-μώδης</b> (Vett. Val.); 2. <b class="b3">-μα</b> ([[κόμης]]) n. [[the tussling]], [[tousling]], [[tousled hair]] (AP); 3. <b class="b3">σκύλσις θυμός</b>, [[σάλος]], [[ταραχή]] H., <b class="b3">-τικός</b> (Vett. Val.). -- 4. [[σκύλος]] n. ([[σκύλα]] pl. Nic. Th. 422) [[stripped hide]], [[skin]] (Call., Theoc., AP; cf. [[δέρμα]] : [[δέρω]]), [[nutshell]] (Nic.); as 1. member in <b class="b3">σκυλο-δέψης</b> m. [[tanner]] (Ar.), <b class="b3">-ός</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (D.; Fraenkel Nom. ag. 2, 112f.). Also [[σκῦλος]] n. (Herod. 3, 68 with [[ῦ]] after [[σκῦτος]], if not miswritten for it). -- On [[κοσκυλμάτια]] s. v.<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Together with its derivations [[σκύλλω]] is esp. known from the later colloquial language and in the metaph. meaning <b class="b2">pester etc.</b>. Through adaptation to [[σκῦλον]] the aor. [[σκῦλαι]] got the meaning of [[harass]], [[plunder]] ([[ἱερόν]] etc.). Similarly (<b class="b3">ἀπο-)σκύλαιο</b> aor. opt. midd. 2. sg. of the hair and head [[abrade]], [[uncover]] (Nic.), to which further [[ἔσκυλται]] ([[κόμη]]) [[is teared apart]], [[tousled]] (AP); from the older language only pres. [[σκύλλονται]] <b class="b2">they are (by the fishes) stripped of their flesh</b>, of the drowned warriors (A. Pers. 577 [lyr.]) and he noun <b class="b3">σκυλο-δέψης</b>; to this with metathesis [[ξύλλεσθαι]] = [[σκύλλεσθαι]], [[συλᾶσθαι]] (SIG 56, 3; Argos Va; cf. Schwyzer 329). -- Since long (s. Curtius 169, WP. 2, 591, Pok. 923f.) connected with the group of [[σκάλλω]] (s. v.), where [[υ]] in [[σκύλλω]] would be a reduced vowel (Schwyzer 351) [which is impossible]. Or cross with [[μιστύλλω]] and other verbs in <b class="b3">-ύλλω</b> ? -- Diff. Persson Beitr. 1, 375 (s. Bq). -- Cf. [[σκῦλα]], <b class="b3">-ον</b>, also [[συλάω]].