κελυφο-κομεῖον

Grammatical information: adj.

Meaning: `leprous' ( Cat. Cod. Astr. 8 (4), 189).

Compounds: As 1. member in κελυφο-κομεῖον `hospital for lepers' ( BMus. Cat. Copt. MSS. p. 453, Nr. 1077).

Derivatives: κελεφία `lepra' (Kyran. 15).

Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Sem.

Etymology: For the ending cf. synonymous ἀλφός `lepra'; further unclear. Strömberg Wortstudien 99, as earlier Lewy Fremdw. 70, sees in it only a phonetic variant of κέλυφος `shell' (wit oppositive accent), which seems impossible to me. Foreign origin (cf. Chantraine Formation 264) is possible for this technical word. IE etymol. (to σκάλλω etc.) in Bq, Pok. 924. Improbable Mann Lang. 28, 34. S. on κέλυφος. - From Semitic, e.g. Syrian qǝlāfā `cortex, squama, putamen, qǝlāfānā `lepra', Benv. RPh. 38 (1964) 7ff.

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