ἐχινίς

ἐχῑνίς, ίδος, ἡ,

A = ἐχῖνος 11.1, Hp.Nat.Mul.32.

ἐχινίς

fem acc pl

ἐχινίς

fem acc pl

Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `hedgehog', also `sea-urchin', and metaph. as techn. term in several professions, e. g. `vessel', esp. `vessel to keep juridical documents', `the third stomach of ruminants', `the rounded part of the Dorian capital' (Ion.-Att.).

Dialectal forms: Myc. ekino \/Ekhīnos\/.

Compounds: As 1. member in ἐχινομήτρα `the greatest kind of see-urchin, Echinus melo' (Arist.; cf. Strömberg Wortstudien 23).

Derivatives: Dimin.: ἐχινίς `vessel' (Hp.), - ίσκος `id.', also `hollow of the ear' (Poll.); ἐχίνιον plant-name (Dsc.); ἐχινέα, -ῆ `hedgehog-skin' (Hdn.), also vessel (Delos III^a); ἐχινέες m. pl. a kind of Libyan spinous mouse (Hdt.); Έχῖναι or - άδες f. pl. name of a group of islands in the Ionian Sea (Β 635); - ἐχινώδης `rugged' (Arist., Str.).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [292] *h₁eǵʰi- `hedgehog'

Etymology: Prob. from ἔχις `snake' with suffixal -ῑνο- (i.e. - iHno-) (Chantraine Formation 204, Schwyzer 191 w. n. 2), so prop. "snake-animal" = "snake-eater" (Schulze in Lohmann Gnomon 11, 407) as tabu-word for χήρ (s. v.). An n-suffix also in the ablauting Arm. ozni `hedgehog' (IE *oǵh-ī̆n-i̯o-, evtl. -ē̆n-i̯o-); beside it with -l- Germ., e. g. OHG igil \< PGm. * eʒīla-. Balto-Slavic has a i̯o-deriv., e. g. Lit. ežỹs, Skr.-Csl. ježь, IE *eǵhi̯o-. Uncertain remains the interpretation of Phryg. εξις (= εζις?). - Litt. in Vasmer Russ. et. Wb. 1, 392, e. g. Specht KZ 66, 56f., Ursprung 39; Pok. 292; older litt. in Bq.

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