κέγχρος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m. (f.), mostly plur.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">millet, grain of m.</b>, metaph. <b class="b2">spawn of fish, small ball, speck in the eye etc.</b> (Hes. Sc. 398, Sapph. 5, 13 [?], Hecat., Hdt., Arist.).<br />Compounds: As 1. member e. g. in <b class="b3">κεγχρο-φόρος</b> (Str.). With metathesis or other dissim. (cf. below) [[κέρχνος]] (Anaxandr., Gal., H.); also [[Κερχνεία]] GN?<br />Derivatives: 1. [[κεγχρίς]] f. = [[κέγχρος]] (Hp.), also name of a bird fattened with millet, Lat. [[miliarius]] (Ael.; cf. Thompson Birds s. v.) 2. [[κεγχρίας]] m. [[milletlike protuberances]] ([[ἕρπης]], Gal.) with <b class="b3">-ιδίας</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Dsc.). 3. [[κεγχρίνης]] m. [[snake with millet-like spots]] (Nic., Lyc.); cf. [[κέγχρινος]] below. 4. [[κεγχρίτης]] <b class="b2">id.</b> (Aët.), <b class="b3">-ῖτις ἰσχάς</b> [[dried fig]] (AP; Redard Les noms grecs en <b class="b3">-της</b> 112). 5. [[κεγχραμίς]] f. [[kernel of a fig]] (Hp., Arist., Thphr.), after [[καλαμίς]], [[σησαμίς]] a. o.; not with Schwyzer 494 foreign suffix; <b class="b3">-ιδώδης</b>. 6. [[κεγχρώματα]] pl. <b class="b2">small vizier-openings on a shield (?)</b> (E. Ph. 1386, cf. Chantraine Formation 186; s. also on [[κέρχνος]]). 7. [[κεγχρεών]], <b class="b3">-ῶνος</b> m. [[place where iron is granulated]] (Docum. ap. D. 37, 26). 8. <b class="b3">κεγχρ-ιαῖος</b> [[of the size of a millet corn]] (Luc., Dsc.; Chantraine 49). 9. [[κέγχρινος]] [[made of millet]] (Dsc., Gal.). 10. [[κεγχρώδης]] [[millet-like]], of eruptions (Hp.), of plants (Thphr.). 11. [[κεγχρωτός]] [[with corns]], [[drips]] (pap.). 12. [[Κεγχρεαί]] pl. GN.<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Uncertain. Mostly with Persson Studien 73 as "pulverized" from reduplicated IE. <b class="b2">*gher-ghr-os</b> with old dissimilation [[r]] - [[r]] > [[n]] - [[r]] (or [[r]] - [[n]]) and further connection with <b class="b3">χέρ-μα</b>, <b class="b3">χερ-άς</b> etc. Here also [[κάχρυς]] (p. 124) with further NHG [[grū-z]] [[corn of sand or grain]], Lith. [[grú-das]] [[corn]] etc. - Diff. Niedermann Symb. Rozwadowski 1, 111ff.: for <b class="b3">*κέρχνος</b> (with metathesis) < <b class="b3">*κερκσνος</b> to OHG [[hirso]] [[millet]] < <b class="b2">*hirhso</b> (?). See on [[κάχρυς]] where it is seen as Pre-Greek. But in that case one expects also forms without prenasalization (<b class="b3">*κεχρ-ος</b>) which do not occur.