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1 λαβύρινθος
Grammatical information: m.Meaning: `labyrinth', great building with many corridors and turns, in Egypt (Hdt., Str.), Crete (Call., D. S.), Anatolia (inscr. Miletus) etc.; metaph. of complicated thoughts (Pl.);Dialectal forms: Myc. dapu₂ritojo \/ laburinthojo\/Compounds: λαβυρινθώδης `l.-like, complicated' (Arist.).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: Pre-Greek word in - ινθος, since long (M. Mayer Jb. d. deut. arch. Inst. 7 [1892], 191) connected with λάβρυς, after Plu. 2,302a Lydian for πέλεκυς, and as "House of the Double Axe" (as sign of royalty) interpreted; here also the Carian god Δαβραυνδος. Thus esp. Kretschmer Einleitung 404 and more, e. g. Glotta 28, 244 ff. ; s. also v. Wilamowitz Glaube 1, 121, Nilsson Gr. Rel. 1,276f. Güntert Labyrinth 1ff. connects λαύρα, `stony, plastered street v. s.' (s. v.; but not to *λᾶϜας `stone' ( λάβρυς prop. *"stone axe"), with λέπας, Lat. lapis etc., which was by Kretschmer Glotta 22, 252 f. and Specht KZ 66, 33 f. for phonetic reasons rightly rejected. For connection with λαύρα, [ λᾶας] also Brandenstein Sprache 2, 72 ff. (against it Messing Lang. 30, 107), Deroy Glotta 35, 173ff. After Kretschmer Sprache 2, 152 ff. λαβύρινθος in the meaning `terraced building' (Apollotemple in Didyma) perhaps a contamination with λαύρα(?). - New theory by Gallavotti Par. del Pass. 12, 161 ff.: because of Myc. dapu₂ rito = λαβύρινθος from *δαβύρινθος as `protoidg.' to θάπτω etc.Page in Frisk: 2,67Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό) > λαβύρινθος
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