μηλωταί

μηλωτή

sheepskin: fem nom /voc pl

ὄες· κώδια, Hsch. [full] ὄεσσι, [dialect] Ep. dat. pl. of ὄϊς, οἶς (q. v.). [full] ὀέσχαι· μηλωταί, βαῖται, ἤγουν δερμάτιναι, Id. [full] ὀέτεας παρὰ τοῖς βαρβάροις, ὁ καλλίθριξ, Id. (v. οἰέτεας, and cf. ἀετέα, αὐετῆ, ὐετής, Id.).

Grammatical information: m. pl.

Meaning: `legs and feet of a sheep-skin', generally `offal' (Ar. V. 672 only).

Other forms: Cf. ἀργίλοφοι· λαπάραι κωδίων [read: κῳδίων `sheepskin']· οἱ δε πρωκτόν. καὶ μηλωταί (`sheepskin') H.

Dialectal forms: Acc. to the sch. and AB 8 Attic for ποδεῶνες `ragged ends of the skins of animals'.

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

Etymology: Derivation from ἀργός (but a form in - ε- is then impossible) and λόφος "kann jedenfalls unmöglich richtig sein" (Frisk). One is inclined to consider it as a momentary creation of Aristophanes, but how could his audience then have understood him? Rather simply a word that we do not know. Fur. 358 adduces the gloss with - ι-, which prob. demonstrates a substr. origin. He calls the gloss "völlig unklar", but it is clearly the useless parts of a sheep(skin) (also the meanings `anus' or `membrum virile' (for ποδεών)). A Pre-Gr. word seems probable (e.g. *arg-al^y-ap- or - apʷ-?).

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Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `(castrated) he-goat' (Δ 105, AP; on the meaning E. Maaß RhMus. 74, 464f.).

Other forms: Cf. ἰσχαλωμέναι δεδερματωμέναι H, and ἴσκλαι αἱ αἴγειαι μηλωταὶ ħ.

Derivatives: ἰξαλῆ f. `skin of ἰξ.' (Hp. Fract. 29) with several orthographic variants: ἰσάλη (sch. Ar. Nu. 72), ἰσσέλα H.), ἰτθέλη (Poll.), ἰττέλη (Poll.), ἰσσέλη (Theogn.), ἰσθλῆ (H.), ἰτθέλα (H.), etc. (Gal., Poll., H.; see Solmsen Wortforsch. 141).

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

Etymology: In the variations Solmsen saw like Bechtel Lex. s. v. evidence for Anatolian origin; thus Schwyzer 61. See Heubeck, Praegraeca 66 and 80. Pre-Greek, Fur. 129, 286,, 349, 379, 393.The form with ἴσκλ- shows syncopeof the α\/ε, that with ἰσχαλ- metathesis; α\/ε is well known. I suggest that the word had *ikt^yal- with a palatalized t as second consonant. See Beekes, Pre-Greek, 5.5.

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Grammatical information: m. f.

Meaning: `sheep' (Il.)

Other forms: gen. -ὄϊος, plur. ὄϊες etc. (Hom.); οἶς (Att.), οἰός (also Hom.), οἶες; ὄϜις (Arg.); details on the inflexion Schwyzer 573 η, Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 219 w. lit.; in prose ousted by πρόβατον.

Compounds: Rare compp. and abl.: οἰο-πόλος `herding sheep' (h. Merc., Pi.), - νόμος `id.' (Delph. IV^a, AP, APl.). Dimin. ὀΐδιον (Theognost.); οἴεος `emanating from sheep' (Hdt., Cos), ὀέα μηλωτή; οἰίας (dial. for - έας) τῶν προβάτων τὰ σκεπαστήρια δέρματα H.; also οἶαι διφθέραι, μηλωταί; ὄα μηλωτή H. With lengthened grade(?) ᾤα f. `fleece of sheep' (com., Att. inscr. IV^a, Poll., H.).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [784] *h₃eu̯i- `sheep'.

Etymology: On οἰσπώτη and οἰσύπη s. vv. Old name of the sheep, to be found in nearly all IE languages, e. g. Skt. ávi-, Luw. ḫawi-, Lat. ovis, Germ., e.g. Goth. awi-str `sheep fold', Lith. avìs, IE *h₃éu̯i-s m. f.; further forms w. very rich lit. in the relative dict., e.g. WP. 1, 167, Pok. 784, W.-Hofmann s. ovis. Acc. ὄϊν = Skt. ávim, gen. ὄϊος = Skt. ávyaḥ. Also οἴεος agrees, prob. only as parallel innovation, with Skt. ávy-aya-(usu. -áya-). -- Besides with transition in the a-decl. Hier.- Hitt. hawa-s; Kronasser Vgl. Laut- und Formenlehre 91, Vorgeschichte und Indogermanistik (Symposion 1959) 121.

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