πέδον: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: [[soil]], [[earth]], [[ground]] (Ν 796 [[πέδονδε]]).<br />Compounds: As 2. member in [[δάπεδον]], [[κράσπεδον]] a.o.; s. vv. and Risch IF 59, 14 f. Adject. hypostasis [[ἔμπεδος]] [[standing on the ground]], [[firm]] (ep. poet., late prose) with [[ἐμπεδόω]] to [[confirm]], to [[consider inviolable]] (Att. etc.); bahuvrihi w. [[α]] copul. [[ἄπεδος]] [[flat]] (Hdt., Th., X.); as 1. member a.o. in [[πεδοβάμων]] [[walking the earth]] (A.). Adverbs [[πεδόσε]], [[πεδόθεν]], <b class="b3">-οι</b> (ep. poet.).<br />Derivatives: Besides with ιο- suffix [[πεδίον]] n. [[plain]], [[plane]], [[field]] (Il.) with many derivv.: 1. [[πεδιάς]], -άδος f. [[flat]], [[level]], [[on the plain]] (Pi., IA.); 2. [[πεδιεινός]], also [[πεδεινός]], [[πεδεϊνός]], [[flat]], [[level]] (IA.; after [[αἰπεινός]], resp. [[πυκινός]] a.o.); 3. [[πεδιακός]] [[belonging to the plain]], pl. [[inhabitant of the plain country of Attica]] (Lys. Fr. 238 S., Arist., pap.); 4. [[πεδιεῖς]] m. pl. [[id.]] (Plu., D. L., Bosshardt 74); 5. [[πεδιάσιος]] [[on the plain]] (Str., Dsc.; prob. after [[Φλειάσιος]] a.o.); 6. [[πεδιασιμαῖος]] = [[campester]] (gloss.); 7. [[πεδιώδης]] [[flat]] (sch.); 8. [[Πεδιώ]] f. [[goddess of the plain]] (Hera; Sicily. -- Cypr. πεδίϳα f. [[plain]] (cf. Bechtel Dial. 1, 423); after [[χώρα]], [[γῆ]]?<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [790] <b class="b2">*ped-</b> [[foot]]<br />Etymology: Old inherited word, identical with Hitt. [[pedan]] [[place]], [[position]], Umbr. [[peřum]] [[bottom]], as well as with Arm. [[het]], -oy [[track]], OWNo. [[fet]] n. [[pace]], Skt. padá- n. [[pace]], [[step]], [[footstep]], Av. pađa- n. [[trace]]: IE <b class="b2">*pedo-m</b> n. Orig. meaning [[trace]], [[bottom]], from the word for [[foot]], s. [[πούς]] w. lit.