πιδακ-ῖτις

πῑδᾰκ-ῖτις, ιδος, ἡ, ([etym.] πῖδαξ)

A growing at or about a spring,

βοτάναι Hp.Ep.16

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Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `outpouring, gusher' (ep. Ion. poet. Π 825).

Compounds: πολυ-πῖδαξ `having many springs' (Il.; on the form of the 2. member Sommer Nominalkomp. 69f.).

Derivatives: πιδακ-ῖτις f. `belonging to a spring' (Hp. Ep.; Redard 25), - όεις `rich in springs' (E.), - ώδης `id.' (Plu.). -- Also πιδήεσσα f. `id.' ( Ἴδη Λ 183; well attested v.l. πηδ-; s. πηδός); πιδυλίς (cod. πηδ-) πέτρα, ἐξ ἧς ὕδωρ ῥέει H. -- Verbs: πιδάω also w. δια-, `to spring, to spout up' (Arist.); πιδύω also w. ἀνα-, ἀπο-, δια-, `id.' (Hp., Arist., Thphr.); πίδυσις f. `trickling through' (Hp.).

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

Etymology: Given the strong productivity and formal variation of the nouns in - ᾰξ (Chantraine Form. 276ff., Schwyzer 497) the basis of πῖδαξ cannot be ascertained. A noun *πίδ-η, - ος may be assumed because of πιδάω, - ήεσσσα; but πιδ-ύω, and - υλίς point best to an υ-stem *πῖδυς. -- Certain cognates outside Greek have not been found; one compares since Fick (1, 482; 3, 241; cf. also Curtius 655) the Germ. words for `fat', e.g. OWNo. feitr, MHG veiz, PGm. * faita-, OWNo. fita f. `fat', PGm. * fitō-n-; IE * poid-: pĭd-. If one seprates the -d- one comes to pi- in πῖαρ etc. (s. v.). but this is long; a connection, which semantically fits better for the Germ. then for the Greek words. Cf. also πίσεα and πίτυς. - The word could well be Pre-Greek (Furnée 259),

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