παιπαλώσσω τὸ παίζω καὶ τὸ παροινῶ

Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: 1. `fine flour, flour dust' (Ar. Nu. 262, Apollon. Med.), 2. `shrewd person, crafty person' (Ar. Nu. 260).

Compounds: Compp.: 1. δυσ-παίπαλος adjunct of βῆσσα (Archil.), κύματα (B.), Ὄθρυς (Nic.) a.o.; 2. δυσοδο-παίπαλα n. pl. (A. Eu. 387, reading uncertain; after sch. δυσπαράβατα καὶ τραχέα; 3. πολυ-παίπαλος, of Φοίνικες (ο 419), of αἰθήρ (Call. Fr. anon. 225).

Derivatives: Beside it several formally close, but semantically doubtful fomations. Adj. 1. παιπαλ-όεις of islands, mountains, roads (ep. Il.); 2. - ιμος `artful, shrewd' (Theognost., sch.); 3. - ώδης `id.' (EM, Suid.); 4. - εος of πιπώ `woodpecker' (Antim.), meaning unknown. Verbs. 1. παιπαλᾶν περισκοπεῖν, ἐρευνᾶν H., with formally παιπάλημα n. (Ar., Aeschin.) = 2. παιπάλη; prob just enlargement of it; 2. παιπάλλειν σείειν H.; 3. παιπαλώσσω τὸ παίζω καὶ τὸ παροινῶ (Theognost.). παίπαλά τε κρημνούς τε (Call. Dian. 194), prob. backformation.

Origin: XX [etym. unknown]

Etymology: The adj. παιπαλόεις, of which the orig. meaning was apparently early forgotten and which was used by the ep. poets as epith. ornans without specific meaning, is mostly explained as ' τραχύς, σκολιώδης', i.e. `raw, steep' or `twisted'; so δυσ-παίπαλος `with dangerous παίπαλα'. Starting from `winding' Fick KZ 44, 148 f. (agreeing Bechtel Lex. s.v.) wanted to connect a supposed root pele- `wind' [impossible root form], also `fold'; παιπαλόεις thus `rich in turns or folds' (cf. πολύ-πτυχος), πολυ-παίπαλος = πολύ-τροπος (in antiquity). Positing a root pele- meaning `turn' however, is based on a wrong analysis of πόλος, πάλιν (s. rather πέλομαι); so only the meaning `fold' remains (s. ἁπλόος). Similarly Worms Herm. 81, 31 n. 2: prop. `geschwungen, gewunden', to πάλλω, from where `zackig, sich schlangelnd, zerklüftet'(?). With this interpretation of παιπαλόεις one separates παιπάλη from it and connects it as a separate word to πάλη `flour' (s.v.) and πόλτος etc. -- Others connect παιπαλόεις as `floury, dusty' (first of roads) with παιπάλη; s. Leumann Hom. Wörter 236 ff. with extensive argumentation and rich lit. He considers παιπάλη `subtle talker' not as metapher of παιπάλη `fine flour' but explains it from πολυ-παίπαλος. -- Still diff. Palmer Glotta 27, 134 ff. (by Leumann rightly rejected). The origin of παιπάλη L. sees in παιπάλλειν = σείειν ('shake' = `sieve flour'); also πάλη `flour' from πάλλω. Cf. πασπάλη. -- On the reduplication cf. Skoda, Redoublement 33 etc.

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