ηῖδος

     κερχνηΐς

    ηΐδος, стяж. κερχνῄς - ῇδος ἥ предполож. птица пустельга ( Falco tinnunculus) Arph.

κατα-κλείς, εῖδος, or [full] κατάκλεις, ειδος, [dialect] Ion. and [dialect] Ep. [suff] κατα-κληΐς, ηῖδος, ἡ,

A instrument for shutting or fastening doors, distd. from the bolt ([etym.] μοχλός ) and bolt-pin ([etym.] βάλανος), Ar.V. 154, IG11(2).158A 65 (Delos, iii B.C., pl.); αἱ κ. τῶν ἀξόνων linch-pins, prob.l.in D.S.17.53.

2 pawl, check-hook, Ph.Bel.68.5, HeroBel.79.13.

3 κατακληΐς βελέμνων case for arrows, quiver, Call.Dian.82; cap or case fitted to an engine, Bito 59.3; also, socket for the arrow in the γαστραφέτης, Id.62.9.

4 pl., locks on a canal, PPetr.2p.43 (iii B.C.).

5 sheath for a pin, in pl., Sch.Od.18.294, Aristeas65, cf. Hsch. s.v. κληῖδα.

II = ἀκρώμιον, Heliod. ap. Orib.48.48.1, Sor.2.62, Gal.2.766.

2 first rib, Id.18(2).956.

3 clavicular region, Id.14.703, Hdn.4.13.5.

III final remark, conclusion, Cic.Att. 9.18.3, prob. l. in ib.2.3.3.

2 close of a verse or set of verses, Heph.5.1, 6.6, Aristid.Quint.1.27, Sch.Ar.Ach. 659.

Grammatical information: m., also f.

Meaning: `rush, reed, rope plaited of rush' (ε 463), also as (Egypt.) length-measure for land (Hdt. 2, 6, Hero, pap. a.o.).

Other forms: Myc. ko(i)no?

Compounds: Compp., e.g. σχοινο-τενής `in a straight line' (Hdt.), `stretched, plaited of rushes' (late; cf. on τεί-νω).

Derivatives: 1. σχοιν-ίον n. `rope, cord' (Hdt., com. a.o.), `measuring-line, linear measure' (Arist., hell. a. late). 2. - ίς, - ῖδος f. `rope, cord' (Theoc., hell. inscr.), - ίς, ΐος adj. `plaited of rushes' (Nic.). 3. - ιά f. `bunch of rushes, cluster, enclosure' (Thphr., Str. a.o.; Scheller Oxytonierung 74f.), - ιαία f. `enclosure' (Olbia, Odessus III^a). 4. - ίλος (v. l. - ίκλος) m. name of a bird, perh. `wagtail' (Arist.; s. Thompson s. v.), - ίων m. `id.' (Arist.), also `effeminate flute-melody' (Plu., Poll.). 5. - εύς m. name of a bird (Ant. Lib.), also PN, eponym of the town Σχοῖνος in Boeötia (Paus., St. Byz.; Boßhardt 109; cf. Σχοινοῦς below); f. - ῄς, ῃ̃ δος (- ηΐς, - ηΐδος) f. surn. of Aphrodite (Lyc. 832; acc. to sch. ad loc. because of the sexual effect of the rush [?]). 6. - άτας m. surn. of Asklepios ἐν τῳ̃ Ε῝λει (Sparta III<sup>p</sup>). 7. -ᾱ̃ς m. `rope-maker' (pap. IV^p). 8. - ῖτις ( καλύβη) `made of rushes' (AP). 9. Adj. - ινος (com., E. etc.), - ικός (hell. pap., Gp.), - ιος (pap. III<sup>a</sup>) `(plaited) of rushes'; - ώδης `full of rushes, rushy' (Nic., Dsc.); - οῦς, - οῦντος `rich of rush' (Str.), Σχοινοῦς river- and place-name (Boeotia, Arcadia; Str., Paus., Krahe Beitr. z. Namenforsch. 2, 233; cf. - εύς above). 10. Verbs ἀπο-, παρα-, περι-σχοινίζω `to rope off esp. to enclose' (D., D.H., Plu. a.o.) with ( περι-)σχοινισμός (Delph., pap.), ( παρα-, περι-)σχοίνισμα (LXX, Plu. a.o.).

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

Etymology: Unexplained. Earlier attempts at interpretation in Bq and W.-Hofmann s. fēnum, fīnis und fūnis. Furnée 391 compares κοίνα χόρτος H.; the word is then Pre-Greek.

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