καχρυ-δ-ίας

Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `hare'; also metaph. as name of a bird (Thompson Birds s. v. ; cf. λαγωΐς below), several sea-animals (Thompson Fishes s. v., Strömberg Fischnamen 111), of a constellation (Scherer Gestirnnamen 189, 192), of a bandage (medic.)

Other forms: - ῶς; (cf. on the gender Schwyzer-Debrunner 31 w. n. 4), gen. λαγώ (-ῶ), acc. λαγών, analog. - ώ(-ῶ) etc. (Att.); ep., Arist. λαγωός, Ion. Dor., poet. λαγός.

Compounds: As 1. member e. g. in λαγο-δαίτᾱς m. `hase-devourer' (A.), λαγω(ο)-βόλον n. `staff for flinging at hares' (Theoc., A P).

Derivatives: Diminut.: λαγῴδιον (Ar., pap.), λαγωδάριον (Ph.); λάγιον (X.), λαγίδιον (M. Ant., Poll.), λαγιδεύς (Str.; Boßhardt 72). Adject.: λαγῳ̃ος `belonging to a hare', τὰ λαγῳ̃α `hare-flesh, titbit' (Hp., com.), λαγώειος `id.' (Opp.), λαγώνεια λαγοῦ κρέα H. (: ταών(ε)ιος from ταώς. - ῶς); λάγειος (of κρέας, Hp.), λάγινος `belonging to a hare' (A.). Bird-names: λαγωΐς f. (Hor. Sat. 2, 2, 22; leporini coloris Porph.; cf. W.-Hofmann s. v.). λαγωΐνης ὄρνις ποιός H. (cf. κεγχρίνης, ἐλαφίνης a. o.), λαγω-δίας = ὦτος (kind of owl; Alex. Mynd. ap. Ath. 9, 390f; cf. καχρυ-δ-ίας and Chantraine Form. 203).

Origin: GR [a formation built with Greek elements]

Etymology: From *λαγ(ο)-ω[υσ]-ός `with slack ears', adject. bahuvrihi of *λαγος (*λάξ; s. on λαγαίω) and οὖς (Schwyzer KZ 37, 146f.); cf. Osset. tärqūs `hare', prop. "Long-ear", NPers. xargōš `id.', prop. "ass-ear" (Schulze KZ 48, 101 = Kl. Schr. 372), Berber. bu tmezgīn "the animal with the long ears" (Benveniste Sprache 1, 119); taboo-word of the language of hunters (e.g. Schwyzer 38, Havers Sprachtabu 51 f.). Through contraction and analogy arose λαγώς, λαγός (Schwyzer 557 w. n. 1). On the stem-formation also Sommer Nominalkomp. 18 f.; the there proposed substantival interpretation ("Schlappohr") like NHG Langohr `ass, hare' is neither morphologically nor phonetically defendable.

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