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1 Κερδείη
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2 κέρδος
Grammatical information: n.Meaning: `gain, profit, desire to gain, cunning, wiles' (Il.); in plur. also `good advice' (Hom.).Compounds: rarely as 1, member, e. g. κερδο-φόρος `bringing gain' (Artem.), as 2. member in αἰσχρο-κερδής `full lowly desire to gain, greedy' (IA).Derivatives: Diminutives κερδάριον, κερδύφιον (gloss.); κερδοσύνη `ruse' (Hom., Cleanth. Hymn. 1, 28; Porzig Satzinhalte 226, Wyss - συνη 27), κερδώ f. "the cunning", i. e. `the fox' (Ar., Babr.); Κέρδων, - ωνος PN (D., Argolis; from here Lat. cerdō `ordinary artisan'), also Κερδέων surn. of Hermes and Κερδείη Πειθώ (Herod. 7, 74); Κερδῳ̃ος `bringing gain' surn. of Apollon (Thessal., Lyc.; after Λητῳ̃ος), also of Hermes (Plu., Luc.), also from the fox (Babr.); κερδητικός `greedy' (gloss.). - Further κερδαλέος `greedy' (Il.) and κερδαίνω, aor. κερδῆναι, - δᾶναι, - δῆσαι `gain, have profit' (Pi., IA); hardly from an old \/ n-l\/-stem (Schwyzer 484). - Compar. forms κερδίων `more profitable' (Il.), κέρδιστος `the most cunnting' (Hom.), cf. Seiler Steigerungsformen 84.Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [579], PGX [probably a word of Pre-Greek origin] * kerd- `gain, clever, cunning'Etymology: The only connections outside Greek are a few Celtic words: OIr. cerd (IE. * kerdā) `art, handwork', also `aerarius, figulus, poeta', Welsh cerdd `song'. - The doubtful H.-glosse κήρτεα τὰ κέρδη does hardly allow conclusions for the morphology (cf. Schwyzer 512 n. 3). See Bq, and W.-Hofmann s. cerdō; also E. Lewy FS Dornseiff 226f. Sophie Minon conects (RPh. LXXIV (2000) 271 κορδύς πανοῦργος H., which is of course not certain (s.v.). Or do κερδύφιον, κερδώ point to a Pre-Greek word?Page in Frisk: 1,829Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό) > κέρδος
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