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|etymtx=Grammatical information: v.<br />Meaning: [[to draw]], [[to trail]], [[to drag]], [[to pull]], [[to ravish]], [[to sweep]](IA.).<br />Other forms: Aor. [[σῦραι]], pass. [[συρῆναι]] (late), fut. [[συρῶ]] (LXX), perf. [[σέσυρμαι]], <b class="b3">-κα</b> (hell. a. late).<br />Compounds: Very often w. prefix in diff. shades of meaning, e.g. <b class="b3">δια-</b> (also [[to hackle]], [[to mock]]), <b class="b3">ἐπι-</b> (also <b class="b2">to be, treat neglectful etc.</b>), <b class="b3">κατα-</b>, <b class="b3">παρα-</b>. As 1. member in [[σύργαστρος]] (s.v.)?<br />Derivatives: 1. [[σύρμα]] (<b class="b3">ἀπό-</b>, <b class="b3">ἐπί-</b>, <b class="b3">παρά-</b>, <b class="b3">περί-</b>) n. [[train-dress]], [[sweepings]], [[dragging movement]] (Ion., X., hell. a. late) with <b class="b3">συρμα-τῖτις κόπρος</b> [[manure-heap consisting of sweepings]] (Thphr.; Redard 109), <b class="b3">-τικη φωνή</b> [[drawn-out accent]] (VIIp), <b class="b3">-τὶς στρατιά ἡ τὰ συμψήγματα καὶ φρύγανα σύρουσα καὶ συλλέγουσα</b> H. 2. [[συρμός]] (<b class="b3">ἐπι-</b>, <b class="b3">περι-</b>, <b class="b3">ὑπο-</b>) m. [[grinding]], [[dragging]], [[pulling movement]] (of a wind, a gulf, a meteor, a snake a.o.; Arist. etc), [[the vomiting]] (Nic.); <b class="b3">δια-</b> σύρω [[the pulling apart]], [[to bemock]] (hell. a. late); from this <b class="b3">συρ-μάδες</b> f. pl. [[snowdrifts]] (late), <b class="b3">-μαία</b>, Ion. <b class="b3">-μαίη</b> f. [[vomitive]], [[radish]] (Ion., Ar. etc.), also name of a Lacon. priestrank (inscr., H.), with <b class="b3">-μαΐζω</b> [[to take a vomitive]], <b class="b3">-μαϊσμός</b> m. (Hdt., medic.), <b class="b3">-μίον λάχανόν τι σελίνῳ ἐοικός</b> H., <b class="b3">-μιστήρ ξυλο-πώλης</b> H. 3. [[συρμή]] f. [[trailing tail of a snake]] (sch.). -- 4. <b class="b3">σύρ-της</b> m. [[towing-rope]] (Man., H.), <b class="b3">-τῶν</b> gen. pl. (nom. sg. <b class="b3">-της</b> or <b class="b3">-τός</b>) name of a dance (Akraiphia Ip), <b class="b3">διασύρ-της</b> m. [[slanderer]] (Ptol.), <b class="b3">δια-</b>, <b class="b3">ἐκ-συρτικός</b> (hell. a. late). 5. <b class="b3">ἀνασυρτ-όλις</b> f. [[lewd woman]] (Hippon.; cf. [[οἰφόλις]] and Chantraine Form. 237 f.). 6. Prob. also [[Σύρτις]] f. name of a sea-gulf on the northcoast of Africa with sandy shores and dangerous breakers (Hdt. etc.) as "the pulling one" (cf. v. Wilamowitz on Tim. Pers. 99); metaph. [[destruction]] (Tim. Pers. 99, H.). 7. [[σύρσις]] f. (<b class="b3">διά-</b> σύρω) [[the drawing of a plough]] (late). -- With [[φ]] -enlargement: 8. <b class="b3">σύρφη φρύγανα</b> H. 9. <b class="b3">συρφ-ετός</b> m. [[sweepings]], [[filth]] (Hes., Call., Plu. a.o.), [[rabble]] (Pl. a.o.) with <b class="b3">-ετώδης</b> [[vulgar]] (Plb., Luc. a.o.); cf. [[νιφετός]] a.o. (Chantraine Form. 300, Schwyzer 501). 10. <b class="b3">-αξ</b> m. [[rabble]] (Ar. V. 673 [anap.], Luc.), popular-hypocoristic formation. -- On [[σύρφος]] s. [[σέρφος]]. Cf. [[ἀσυρής]].<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: Prob. to [[σαίρω]] [[sweep]] (s. v. w. lit.), but without certain cognates outside Greek. With <b class="b3">σύρφ-η</b>, <b class="b3">-ετός</b>, <b class="b3">-αξ</b> one compares a Germ. word for [[sweep]], [[turn (sweep turning)]], [[wipe off]] in Goth. [[af-]], [[bi-swairban]] [[εξαλεῖψαι]], [[ἐκμάξαι]]', OHG [[swerban]] [[drive quickly to and fro]], [[whirl]], [[wipe off]] etc., to which also Celt., e.g. Welsh [[chwerfu]] [[whirl]], [[turn around]] (Persson Stud. 55, WP. 2, 529f., Pok. 1050f. w. lit.). The semant. certainly possible connection presents the same phonetic problem as [[σέλας]], [[σῦς]] etc. (s. vv.). In auslaut agrees [[σύρφη]], prob. not accidentally, to the synonymous [[κάρφη]]; so formally influenced by it? An old variation [[bh]]: [[m]] in <b class="b3">σύρ-φη</b>: <b class="b3">συρ-μός</b> (Specht Ursprung 269) does not help; but it would show Pre-Greek origin -- The connection with [[σαίρω]], both from *tu̯r̥- is hardly convincing.