ἀσάμινθος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[<b class="b3">ᾰσᾰ], ἡ,</b> [[bathing tub]], <b class="b3">ἔς ῥ' ἀσάμινθον ἕσασα</b> having made sit in it, <span class="bibl">Od.10.361</span>; ἔκ ῥ' ἀ. βῆ <span class="bibl">3.468</span>; ἔς ῥ' ἀσαμίνθους βάντες ἐϋξέστας <span class="bibl">Il.10.576</span>, al.; ἀργυρέας ἀ. <span class="bibl">Od.4.128</span>: rare in Att., <b class="b3">ἐξ ἀ. κύλικος λείβων</b> from a cup [[as large as a bath]], <span class="bibl">Cratin.234</span>; later, <span class="bibl">Artem.1.56</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PStrassb.</span>29.37</span> (iii A. D.).

|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[bath-tub]] (Il.).<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[asamito]] /[[asaminthos]]/<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Substr. word with <b class="b3">νθ-</b>suffix, as in PlN [[Κόρινθος]], <b class="b3">῎Ολυνθος</b> etc.. (Chantr. Form. 371). - Gaerte PhW 1922, 888 and v. Blumenthal IF 48, 50 point to Sumer. [[asam]], Akk. <b class="b2">assammu(m)</b>, [[ansammum]] [[earthenware vase for water]]. Cf. further Alessio Stud. [[italfilclass]]. N. S. 20, 121ff.; Kretschmer Glotta 20, 25l; 22, 253. Improb. speculations Szemerényi, Gnomon 43, 1971, 657.