πάγ-κρεας

Grammatical information: n.

Meaning: `meat, piece of meat'.

Other forms: Gen. κρέως (sec. κρέατος; Attica 338^a); Pl. nom. κρέᾰ (Il., innovation; very uncertain κρέατα Od.), gen. κρεῶν (IA.), also κρειῶν (Hom.; prob. for κρεέων), κρεάων (h. Merc. 130; Zumbach Neuerungen 3), dat. κρέασι (Il.), also κρέεσσι (Orac. ap. Hdt. 1, 47), κρεάεσσι (late Ep.).

Dialectal forms: Dor. κρῆς

Compounds: As 1. member usually κρεο- (after the ο-stems), e.g. κρεο-κοπέω `cut meat' (A., E.), also κρεω- (after γεω-, λεω- a. o.) as v. l. and e.g. in κρεω-δαίτης `meat-distributor' (Phld.), κρε-άγρα `meat-pincer' (Ar.; elision, from κρεο-), κρεᾱ-νόμος, - έω, - ία `distributing meat' (E., Is., hell.; after ἀγορᾱ-νόμος; after this κρεᾱ-δοτέω, - σία), κρεη-φαγέω `eat meat' (Hp., analogical beside κρεο-φ.). Details on the inflexion Schwyzer 516, Sommer Μνήμης χάριν 2, 145 ff., Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 209 f.; on the form of the 1. member Solmsen Unt. 23 n. 1. Rarely as 2. member: πάγ-κρεας `sweetbread, pancreas' (Arist., medic.), γλυκύ-κρεος `with sweet meat' (Sophr.) a. o.

Derivatives: Diminut. κρεᾳδιον (IA.), κρεΐσκος (Alex. 189), κρεύλλιον (Theognost.); with κρεώδης `meaty' (Arist., Thphr.), κρεῖον `butcher' stall' (I 206; H. κρήϊον), after ἀγγεῖον a.o.; not with Specht KZ 62, 230 n. 2 and Ursprung 126 from *κρέϜι-ον with old i-stem; quite uncertain κρηστήριον (Attica IV^a).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [621] * kreu₂- `flesh'

Etymology: But for the accent κρέας can be identical with Skt. kravíṣ- n. `raw flesh'; basis * kreuh₂s- n. Wrong Benveniste Origines 31. Skt. krūr-á- `raw, bloody' \< * kruh₂-ro-. Beside it Skt. kravyám n. `raw flesh' = OPr. krawian n., Lith. kraũjas m. `blood' (all *kreuh₂-i̯-); with diff. ablaut e.g. OCS krъvь f. `blood' (* kruh-i-). - More forms Pok. 621f., W.-Hofmann s. cruor, crūdus, cruentus, Fraenkel Lit. et. Wb. s. kraũjas, Vasmer Russ. et.Wb. s. krovь.

See also: S. auch κρύος.

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