σταφυλ-ῖνος

Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `pelican' (Anaxandr. Com., Arist.).

Other forms: Cf. πελεκανός `fulica' Gloss.

Derivatives: πελεκᾶς, - ᾶντος m. `green woodpecker' (Ar. Av.); πελεκῖνος m. `pelican' (Ar. Av., Dionys. Av.); more usu. as name of several plants, "axeweed", esp. `Securigera Coronilla' (Hp., Thphr., Dsc.) and architectural technical expression `dovetail' (Ph. Bel., Hero Bel.).

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

Etymology: Fron πέλεκυς because of the functional resp. outward similarity of the beak, the fruit (Strömberg Pfl.namen 56) etc. with an axe. On the formation: πελεκ-ῖνος like κορακ-ῖνος, σταφυλ-ῖνος, ἀτταγ-ῖνος a.o.; πελεκᾶς as ἀλλᾶς, - ᾶντος (cf. s.v. and Schwyzer 528), so from *πελεκᾰ-Ϝεντ- (Björck Alpha impurum 271; but the formation will not be IE)? Rather with Kretschmer Glotta 14, 101 connected with πελεκάω like e.g. Φείδας: φείδομαι. With πελεκάν cf. esp. the peoples names in - άν ( Άκαρνάν a.o.); on the not-Ion.-Att. form Björck 62 a. 288. - Furnée 320 sompares σπέλεκτος πελεκάν H.

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Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `grape' (Il.), metaph. `swollen uvula, uvula inflammation' (Hp., Arist. etc.), also σταφύλη (accent after κοτύλη, κανθύλη a.o.?) `lead in the balance, plummet of a level' (Β 765).

Compounds: Compp., e.g. σταφυλο-τομέω `to cut off grapes, to operate the uvula' (late; cf. δειρο-τομέω s. δέρη), ἐρι-στάφυλος `with big grapes' (ep. Od.).

Derivatives: Dimin. σταφυλ-ίς, - ίδος f. (Theoc., Hp.), - ιον n. (M. Ant., pap.); - ῖνος m. `carrot' (Hp., Dsc. a.o.; Andrews ClassPhil. 44, 186f.), metaph. as name of an insect (Arist.; Strömberg Theophrastea 52); - ίτης m. surn. of Dionysos (Ael.; Redard 212); - ωμα n. name of an eye-disease (medic.; after γλαύκωμα a. o.). From σταφύλη: σταφυλίζειν τὸ συνι\<σ\> άζειν τὰς ὤας τοῦ ἱματίου H. -- PN Στάφυλος m. (on the accent Schw.-Debrunner 37).

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

Etymology: No etym.; perh. LW [loanword] (cf. Chantraine Form. 251, Schwyzer 485). Since long (s. Curtius 213) connected wit στέμφυλα, "was schon von Curtius a. O. mit Recht bezweifelt wird" (Frisk). The similarity with ( ἀ)σταφίς (s.v.) is hardly accidental; σταφίς a cross? - Furnée 342, 373; also ὁσταφίς. The variants show clearly that the word is Pre-Greek. στεμφυλ- (s.v.) clearly belongs here too prensalization is typical of Pre-Greek. The total structure of the word (a-vocalism, - υλ-) is Pre-Greek.

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