ελλο-

Grammatical information: n.

Meaning: `big-bellied drinking vessel, beaker, goblet' (Il.);

Other forms: Note κύφελλα `hollows of the ears' (Lyc.).

Dialectal forms: Myc. [ku]pera? [uncertain]

Compounds: Some compp., notably ἀμφι-κύπελλον n. adj. of δέπας (Hom.), litt. "with beakers at both sides (or round about)", i.e. `doublebeaker', i.e. `two beakers joined with the foot' (?); acc. to Aristarchus (EM 90, 43; cf. Ath.11,783b) `double-handled'; cf. Kretschmer Glotta 20, 248, Brommer Herm. 77, 358f., 366.

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

Etymology: Acc. to a spokesman in Ath. 11, 483 a κύπελλον was known to both Cyprians and Cretans; cf. Bowra JournofHellStud. 54, 73. Without the prob. suffixal ελλο -, which could be a combination of λ- and ιο- suffixes (cf. Chantraine Formation 253, also Schwyzer 483), we can connect κύπη τρώγλη H. with agreements in Lat. cūpa `vat, ton', Skt. kū́pa- m. `pit, hole, source' etc., s. in W.-Hofmann s. 2. cūpa, further Mayrhofer s. kū́paḥ. - Cf. also κυφός. - Fur. 171 compares κυπη `ship, hut, hole' (H.), κύβος.. τρύβλιον. (H.), κύμβη `beaker', κύμβος `beaker'; also Fur. 284. The word was prob. Pre-Greek but it concerns a widespread `Wanderwort'. The `suffix' - ελλο- rather continues -al^y-.

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Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: hellebore, Helleborus, Veratrum album' (Hp., Ar.; on the meaning Dawkins JournHellStud. 56, 3f.).

Other forms: Ion. ἐλ-

Compounds: As 1. member in ἑλλεβοροποσία `drinking ἑ.' (Hp.) ἑλλεβορο-σήματα plant name =- λειμώνιον (Ps.-Dsc. 4, 16); bahuvrihi: `plant, that shows Helleborus-symptoms', Strömberg Wortstudien 51.

Derivatives: ἑλλεβορίνη `Herniaria glabra' (Thphr., Dsc.), ἑλλεβορίτης `κενταύρειον τὸ μικρόν' (Ps.-Dsc.), also name of a wine (Dsc., Plin.), vgl. Redard Les noms grecs en - της 71 and 96; denomin. verb ἑλλεβορίζω `treat with h., bring to sense' (Hp., D.) with ἑλλεβορισμός (Hp.).

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

Etymology: Taken as "eaten by deer" to ἐλλός ( ἑλλός) and βιβρώσκω (s. βορά), s. Strömberg Wortstudien 48ff. (full disc.). The ε remains problematic. - Suz. Amigues. in RPh 72, 1998, 125, who stresses that the plant is deadly. Suggestion to identify the first element with ἐσθλός; Girard, Connaissance...l'hellébore 1988 assumes original ἑλλο-, which is hardly correct. The etymology seems very doubtful to me; the word could well be non-IE, i.e. Pre-Greek. The double - λλ- will represent the phoneme -l^y-, which at the same time explains the two first ε's: \/a\/ was pronounced [ä] in contact with the palatalized l, and [ä] is reproduced by ε; after the β it may have become ο; sowe have \/al^yabar-\/.

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