ὄσχη: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=1.<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[scrotum]] (Hp.).<br />Other forms: <b class="b3">ὄσχεα βαλλάντια</b>, <b class="b3">μαρσὺππια η τὸ τῶν διδύμων ἀγγεῖον</b> H. In the same meaning also <b class="b3">ὀσχ-έα</b> f., <b class="b3">-εος</b> m. (Arist.), <b class="b3">-εον</b> n. (Poll., H.).<br />Compounds: <b class="b3">ἀν-οσχ-ήν ἄνανδρος</b> H.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: Explained as metaphorical use of 2. [[ὄσχη]]. DELG thinks this possible but uncertain. Improbable prefix <b class="b3">ὀ-</b> and [[σχεῖν]] (as DELG suggests). - The word may well be Pre-Greek.<br />2.<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[vine with grapes]] in <b class="b3">ὄσχαι κλήματα βοτρύων γέμοντα</b> H. (similar Harp.; unclear Nic. Al. 109).<br />Other forms: Also <b class="b3">ὤσχη κληματίς</b> (EM, Suid., H.); m.pl. <b class="b3">ὠσχοί τὰ νέα κλήματα σὺν αὑτοῖς τοῖς βότρυσι</b> H. (thus a.o. EM 619, 32, where <b class="b3">οἰ-</b> after [[οἶνος]]?); sg. Aristodem. ap. Ath. 11, 495 f.<br />Compounds: Most often in <b class="b3">ὠσχο-φόρια</b> n. pl. name of an Athen. festive day, with <b class="b3">-φόροι</b> m. pl., <b class="b3">-φορικός</b> (since IVa; on the meaning Rutgers van der Loeff Mnem. 43, 404ff.); codd. also <b class="b3">ὀ-</b> (thus [[ὄσχος]] as conj. Ar. Ach. 997). Hypostasis <b class="b3">ἐπ-όσχ-ιον</b> n. [[offshoot of a vine]] (Gal.); furher details Strömberg Wortstud. 53 f.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Unexplained. By Brugmann IF 19, 379 n. 1, Grundr.2 II: 2, 816 and by Bloomfield Lang. 3, 213f. connected with <b class="b3">σχ-εῖν</b> [[hold]], <b class="b3">σχ-εδόν</b> with prefixed <b class="b3">ὠ-</b>, <b class="b3">ὀ-</b>; semantically far from evident (cf. on 1. [[ὄζος]]). Scheftelowitz IF 33, 141, 144f. compares, quite as hypothetically, the isolated MPers. [[azg]] [[branch]], NPers. [[azaɣ]] [[twig]], [[bud]]; details in WP. 1, 185 a. 2, 301. -- The disappearance of the word in its orig. meaning may be due to its metaph. use (s. 1), or the existence of 1. - The word is no doubt Pre-Greek, which is shown by the variation of the initial (not in Furnée).