βασιλ-ηΐς

βᾰσῐλ-ηΐς, ΐδος, ἡ, pecul. fem. of βασίλειος,

A royal,

τιμή Il.6.193

, Hes.Th. 462, E.Hipp. 1280(lyr.).

2 = βασίλειᾰ, a queen, Man.1.283, Epigr.Gr.989.3 ([place name] Memnon).

Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `pointed pole, palisade, prickle' (ep. ion. poet. Il., hell. a. late prose; Att. χάραξ, σταυρός, - ωμα).

Other forms: Also σκόλοφρον θρανίον H. (after δίφρος?); cf. σκόλυθρον.

Derivatives: Dimin. σκολόπ-ιον n. (Antyll. ap. Orib.), - ηὶς μοῖρα `the destiny of being impaled' (Man.; after βασιλ-ηΐς a.o.); - ίζω `provide with σ.' ( Stad.) wit - ισμός m. `the impaling, the spearing' (Vett. Val.); often with ἀνα- `to stick on a pole, to impale' (Hdt. a. o.) with - ισις f. (sch., Eust.), ἀπο σκόλοψ `to remove the poles' (Aq.).

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]

Etymology: Finally to the great family of σκάλλω (s. v.). As the labial can belong to the stem, σκόλοψ can first be connected with Lat. scalpō `scratch, cut with a sharp instrument etc.'; to this may be joined several words with varying meaning, partly also with varying form, e.g. OHG scelifa `membranous shell', Lith. sklem̃pti, sklem̃bti `plane smooth, cut oblique, sprinkle' etc., s. Bq s. σκάλοψ, WP. 2, 595, Pok. 926, W.-Hofmann s. scalpō. The dissillabicity of σκόλοψ is rather due to adaptation to the nouns in - οψ (a sequence *-ολψ or *-ορψ is unknown in Greek) than with Bechtel Lex. s. v. to a disyllabic root form [?] -- Beside σκόλοψ stands in quite different meaning σκάλοψ, - οπος m. `mole' (Ar. Ach. 879; also Cratin. 93 [- ωψ]) with σκαλοπία f. `mole-track' (Thphr. HP 7, 12, 3; tradit.. σκολ-, s. Scheller Oxytonierung 47 f.), clearly from σκάλλω with the in animal-names usual οπ-suffix (final); we may have to do with a folketym. justification of untransparent σπάλαξ (s. ἀσπάλαξ with a quite hypothetic etym.); s. Grégoire Byzantion 32, 32ff. -- As the variant with - φρ- shows, we have to do with a Pre-Greek word (influence of δίφρος is far-fatched); cf. Furnée 107. Words for `pole' etc. are often taken over from a substrate language. (Not in Furnée.)

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