κυρσερίδες τὰ τῶν μελισσῶν ἀγγεῖα

κυρσερίδες· τὰ τῶν μελισσῶν ἀγγεῖα, κυψελίδες, Hsch. [full] κυρσίον· μειράκιον, Id.; cf. κυρσάνιος. [full] κυρσός,

A gibberosus, Gloss.

Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `weel, lobster pot' (Sapph., Pl., Arist., pap.), also `bird-cage' (AP);

Compounds: Comp. κυρτο-βόλος `fisherman' (Smyrna).

Derivatives: κύρτη f. `bird-cage' (Archil.), `bow-net' (Hdt., D. S.), `strainer' (Nic.). Diminut. κυρτίς `strainer' (Nic., Dsc., Opp.), - ίδιον `strainer' (Dsc.); also κυρτίον name of an unknown chariot-part (Poll. 1, 143). Further κυρτία `wicker shield' (D. S.), κυρτεύς `fisherman' (Herod., Opp.) with κυρτευτής `id.' (AP) and κυρτεία `fishing with the bow-net' (Ael.) from *κυρτεύω or analogically after ἁλι-ευτής, - εία; cf. Boßhardt Die Nom. auf - ευς 68. Here further κυρσερίδες τὰ τῶν μελισσῶν ἀγγεῖα, κυψελίδες H., from *κυρσέρα(?), after κρησέρα `fine sieve'; Grošelj Živa Ant. 3, 202.

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

Etymology: One assumed IE. *kr̥t-o- (Schwyzer 351), but κάρταλ(λ)ος is Pre=Greek. One connects also Skt. káṭa- m. `wicker-work, mat' (prob. wrongly). Further there is a western term for `wicker-work, hurdle' in Germ., e.g. OHG hurt, pl. hurdi, for which one assumes IE. *kr̥t-i-, and Lat. crātis, but this would point to a disyllabic root (* krHti-), for which there is further no evidence. A primary verb is supposed in the nasal present kr̥-ṇá-t-ti `spin' with kart-tar- m. `spinner'. Further W.-Hofmann s. crātis, Feist Et. Wb. d. got. Spr. s. haúrds, Pok. 584f. - Quite diff. Müller-Graupa Glotta 31, 132: κύρτος prop. `wicker-work', substantivized from κυρτός. This simple interpretation presupposes, that κυρτός prop. means `tristed, twined' (after M. -G. `crooked, bent'), what fits badly to the facts, or that κύρτος prop. meant `vaulted, bellied'. So there is no convincing etymology. If κυρσ-ερ- belongs here, the word is rather Pre-Greek. Fur. 258 compares Hitt. kurtal(i)- `container of wood or wicker-work'. -

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