γαλέη: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=γαλῆ<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[weasel]], [[marten]] (Batr., Ar.); also fish name (Ael.), s. Strömberg Fischnamen 108.<br />Compounds: <b class="b3">γαλε-άγκων</b> (Arist.), also <b class="b3">γαλι-άγκων</b> (Hp.; after the many first members in <b class="b3">-ι</b>: <b class="b3">ἀργι-</b>, <b class="b3">κυδι-</b> etc.; s. below), prop. [[with weaselarms]], i. e. [[with short upperarm]], cf. Solmsen Wortforsch. 225f.; <b class="b3">γαλεό-βδολον</b> n. "weaselstench", [[dead nettle]], substant. bahuvrihi, = [[γαλήοψις]] "weaseleye" (Dsc.); on the names Strömberg Pflanzennamen 138f., Lehmann IF 21, 193 A. 1. Denom. [[γαλιάω]] = [[ἀκολασταίνω]] "ce qui serait sémantiquement satisfaisant"(?) DELG.<br />Derivatives: [[γαλιδεύς]] [[young weasel]] (Crat.), after <b class="b3">λυκ-ιδεύς</b> etc. (Chantr. Form. 364; s. below); [[γαλεώτης]] [[gecko lizard]] (Ar.), [[weasel]] (Luc.); on the formation s. Schwyzer 500; also [[swordfish]] (Plb.), cf. s. [[γαλεός]]. - On [[γαλεός]] s.v.<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: The formation of [[γαλέη]] shows that the word originally indicated the skin, cf. <b class="b3">ἀλωπεκ-έη</b> etc. (Chantr. Form. 91), cf. Lat. [[galea]] below. The basis is unknown. One compares Lat. [[glīs]] [[dormouse]] and Skt. <b class="b2">giri-</b>, [[girikā]] f. [[mouse]] (lexic.; prob. it did not exist, Mayrhofer EWAia1, 488; <b class="b3">γαλ-ιδεύς</b>, <b class="b3">γαλι-άγκων</b> do not prove a Greek <b class="b3">ι-</b>stem, s. above). <b class="b3">γαλ-</b> could be <b class="b2">*glH-</b>, and Lat. [[glis]] perhaps <b class="b2">*glHi-</b> (Schrijver, Laryngeals 242), but this remains uncertain. [[γαλέη]] must not be IE. On the IE word (*ḱormen-_) see Pok. 573, EIEC 638 - Not to Welsh [[bele]] [[weasel]] (pace Schwyzer 299; cf. W.-Hofmann s. [[fēlēs]]). - The original meaning [[weasel-skin]] in Lat. [[galea]] [[leather helmet]], cf. [[κυνέη]] prop. [[dog-skin]]. - From [[γαλέη]] also Ital. [[galea]], <b class="b2">-ia</b>, Dutch [[galei]] etc., a ship (for its speed); cf. <b class="b3">γαλία εἶδος πλοίου λῃστρικοῦ</b> H.; cf. also Germ. [[Galeere]]; but see H. and R. Kahane, FS Wartburg 1958, 428-439: rather form [[γαλεός]] [[shark]] with the comment of Szemerényi, Gnomon 43 (1971) 663 [[sub verbo|s.v.]] [[γαλέη]]: as Lat. [[galea]] also means [[vessel]], this word could have been used as [[ship]]. Ahrweiler, Byzance et la mer, 414.