κάρνος μεγάλη ἀκρίς

Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `locust' (Ar.).

Other forms: Aeol. Boeot. (Str. 13, 1,64) πόρνοψ, also κόρνοψ (Str. l.c.), - οπος. There is also πρανώ ἀκρίδος εἶδος H. and κάρνος μεγάλη ἀκρίς H. (Furnée 344, 388).

Derivatives: Παρνόπιος(-πίων) Άπόλλων (Paus., Str.), as defender against locusts, like Κορνοπίων, - ωνος as surname of Heracles in Oitaia (Str.); from it the Aeol. month-name Πορνόπιος, - πίων (Cyme, Str.). -- κορνώπιδες κώνωπες H.

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

Etymology: Formation like δρύοψ, σκάλοψ and other animal-names (Chantraine Form. 259, Schwyzer 426 w. n. 4); further unknown. The form with κ- may have been dissimilated from π- (cf. Schwyzer 29 8 f.). Suppositions which must be rejected (from Solmsen, Bally, Sturtevant) in Bq; not better Strömberg Wortstud. 16 f. -- Given the fact that there are more forms it is probable that we are not concerned sith a simple dissimilation; I think the word had a labio-velar of which the labial element could be lost before o (and the o itself is prob. from α after labio-velar). - οπ- is a Pre-Greek suffix.

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Grammatical information: n.

Meaning: μεγάλη ἀκρίς H.

Other forms: Also κάρνος Fur. 371.

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

Etymology: Gil Fernandez Nombres de insectos 148. Fur. 341 compares ἀκορνός = ὀκορνός H.; further πάρνος. So clearly a Pre-Greek word