ἀκτή: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=1.<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">promontory, rocky coast, rough shore, edge</b> (Il.).<br />Derivatives: [[ἀκταία]] name of a plant (Plin.); Strömberg Pflanzennamen 115 (also on [[ἄκτιον]] and [[ἀκτίνη]]). - [[ἄκτιος]] surname of Pan (Theoc.) and Apollo (A. R.), [[ἄκτιον]] = [[ἀκτή]] (Ael.). - [[ἀκτίτης]] m. [[who lives on the coast]] (A. P.), [[ἀκτ]]. ([[λίθος]]) [[stone from Piraeus or Argolis]]; <b class="b3">πέτρος ἀκτῖτις</b> (Ath. Mitt. 31, 143). [[ἀκτάζω]] [[banquet]] (from *banquet on the shore?), Plu. 2, 668 b; or from 2. [[ἁκτή]]?<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: Derivation from <b class="b3">ἀκ-</b> [[sharp]] is "allenfalls möglich" (Frisk), but Fur. 127 compares [[ὄχθη]], <b class="b3">-ος</b> which is quite convincing; so it is a substr. word. Cf. on [[ἀκτή]] 2.!<br />2.<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[corn]] (Il.), often [[Δημήτερος]] or <b class="b3">ἀλφίτου ἀκτή</b>; but DELG rightly points out that it cannot mean [[flour]] because of <b class="b3">ἀλφίτου ἀκτή</b>; cf. <b class="b3">ἀκτή τροφή</b> H.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: No trace of digamma. Fur. 127 compares <b class="b3">*ὀχθη</b>, in [[εὔοχθος]] (see s.v.); also 320 on [[ὁχή]]. This evidence cannot be ignored. So a substr. word. Skoda, Phytonymes 275-283 thinks that the word means <b class="b2">ear (of corn)</b> and belongs to <b class="b3">ἀκ-</b> [[sharp]].