δικρόσσια

δικρόσσιον

double-fringed cloth: neut nom /voc /acc pl

Grammatical information: f. pl.

Meaning: `stepped copings of parapets' (M 258, 444), `courses, steps of the pyramids' (Hdt. 2, 125); πρό-κροσσοι `ranged in rows, ranks' (Ξ 35, Hdt.).

Compounds: κροσσοί m. pl. `tassels, fringe' (Gal., Poll., H.); δί-κροσσος `double bordered' (Poll., EM) mit δικρόσσια n. pl. (Peripl. M. Rubr.).

Derivatives: Diminut. κροσσίον (Hdn.); also as plant-name (Ps.-Dsc.); also κροσσωτός `with fringes' (LXX, Lyc., Plu.), `with steps' (Lyc. 291?; v. l. κορσ-).

Origin: XX [etym. unknown]

Etymology: Technical expression of unknown origin. Since Bezzenberger BB 12, 239 and Trautmann Balt.-slav. Wb. 139 κρόσσαι from *κροκ-ι̯αι is connected with some Balto-Slavic words for `bar, rod, rafters', e.g. Lith. krãkė `rod, staff' (formally = κρόσσα), krẽklas `rafters', Russ. krókva `bar, club, rafters' (old u-stem); MHG ragen `rise up, stand out' (Zupitza Die germ. Gutt. 122) can be explained in diff. ways. More forms in Pok. 619, Fraenkel Wb. and Vasmer Wb. s. vv. - Compared with the rare and late κροσσοί κροσσωτός, which seems derived from it, is attested much earlier and better. It is therefore suggested that κροσσωτός (and δίκροσσοι with δικρόσσια?) were formed to κρόσσαι (after θυσανωτός; cf. also κνισωτός: κνίση etc.) with transfer from architecture to tailor-work; from there again as backformation the formally difficult κροσσοί. Or comes the expression originally from weaving, to κρόξ, κρόκ-η `woof-thread' (s. κρέκω)? - Fur. 257 connects κόρση (?).

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