πολυ-καγκής

πολυ-καγκής, ές, ([etym.] κάγκω, καίω)

A parching,

δίψα Il.11.642

.

2 very dry,

χώρη AP9.678

.

Grammatical information: adj.

Meaning: `arid, barren' (Il.).

Derivatives: καγκάνεος `id.' (Man.) Denomin. καγκαίνει θάλπει, ξηραίνει; also with change ν: λ καγκαλέα κατακεκαυμένα H., unless innovation after the many adjectives for `arid' in - αλέος ( ἀζαλέος, αὑαλέος etc.). - Without suffix καγκομένης ξηρᾶς τῳ̃ φόβῳ H. and πολυ-καγκής adjunct of δίψα (Λ 642), perhaps shaped to κάγκομαι in καγκο-μένης (cf. Schwyzer 513).

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

Etymology: With κάγκανος etc. were connected words for `hunger, pain': the fullgrade primary verbs κέγκει πεινᾳ̃ (Phot.), Lith. keñkia, Inf. keñkti `ache' (prop. *`burns, wither'), secondary OWNo. hā `tease, pain', PGm. * hanhōn (cf. Wißmann Nom. postv. 1, 42), and the verbal nouns Lith. kankà `pain', Germ., e. g. Goth. huhrus ` hunger' with huggrjan `hunger' (zero grade with grammat. change; old r- stem?). Uncertain is Skt. kaṅkāla- m. n. `skeleton' (cf. σκελετός), and desiderative Skt. kāṅkṣati `desire' (from *`burning desire'?), cf. Mayrhofer KEWA s. vv. The nasal in κάγκανος etc., which does not fit kenk-, konk-, kn̥k-, must be secondary (cf. Schwyzer 343). - Schulze KZ 29, 269f. = Kl. Schr. 329; s. also Bechtel Lex. s. v. and Fraenkel Lit. et. Wb. s. keñkti. Acc. to Schulze l. c. here also the H.-glosses κακιθής ἄτροφος ἄμπελος, κακιθές χαλεπόν, λιμηρές, κακιθά λιμηρά (sec. member to αἴθω, ἰθαίνω); but Chantr. notes that the first member could then also be κακός); but if the word is Pre-Greek, κακ- cannot come from it. S. also κάχρυς. - Because of the nasal, and the a-vocalism, one rather expects a Pre-Greek word. The words compared mean `hunger, pain' and not primarily `arid'.

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