δεκά-κις

Grammatical information: adj.

Meaning: `much, many, often' (Il.).

Other forms: πολλή, πολύ, Ion. poet. alo πολλός, πολλόν.

Compounds: As 1. member very productive, e.g. πολύ-τροπος `much-wandering, much-turned, wily' (of Odysseus, Hermes a.o.; Od., h. Merc.), `many-shaped' (Th.); on the meaning Kakridis Glotta 11, 288 ff.; on the πολυ-compp. in Hom. in gen. Stanford ClassPhil. 45, 108ff.; besides rarely πολλα-, e.g. πολλα-πλάσιος, - πλήσιος `manifold' (IA.), as δεκα-πλάσιος, πολλά-κις a.o.; s. also δι-πλάσιος. Compar. a. superl. πλείων, πλέων, πλεῖστος (from * pleh₁-is-to-), s. v.; innovation πόλιστος (Tab. Heracl.), s. Seiler Steigerungsformen 61.

Derivatives: πολλότης f. `plurality' (Damasc.), πολλ-οστός "the manieth", `one of many, small' (Att.; after εἰκοστός a. o.), - άκις (ep. lyr. also - κι) `often' (Il.; like δεκά-κις a.o.; explanation uncertain, s. Schwyzer 299 a. 597) a. o.

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [800] * p(e)lh₁-u- `many'

Etymology: Beside πολύς, -ύ stand the zero grade Skt. purú- `many' (IE *pl̥h₁ú-) and the full grade Celt., e.g. OIr. il `many', and Germ., e.g. Goth. OHG filu `many' (IE * pelh₁u-). For the full grade forms orig. subst. function is most prob. ("quantity, mass, fullness"); opposed is the certain zero grade Skt. adj. purú-; one would like to assume zero grade also for πολύς (so for *παλύς? Schmidt KZ 32, 382, Specht KZ 59, 111 w. diff. explanations; cf. also πόλις). -- The geminated πολλο-, πολλᾱ- agree with the (semant.) close μεγα-λο-, -λᾱ- and could be explained by loss of a syll. from *πολυ-λο-, -λᾱ-. More in Schwyzer 265 w. lit. a. discussion of other interpretations; on the inflection etc. Schwyzer 584. The word for `many' is a very old deriv. of the verb for `fill' (s. πίμπλημι). -- WP. 2, 64f., Pok. 800, W.-Hofmann s. plūs, Mayrhofer s. purú- w. further forms a. lit.

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