σόρ-(ε)ιον

Grammatical information: f. (on the gender Schw.-Debrunner 34 n. 2).

Meaning: `burial urn, coffin' (since Ψ 91), also slightingly of an old (wo)man (com.).

Compounds: Some compp., e. g. σορο-πηγός m. `coffin maker' (Ar., AP), εὐρύ-σορος `having a broad coffin' (AP).

Derivatives: σόρ-(ε)ιον (- εῖον) n. `id.' (inscr.), - ίδιον n. (late), -ώϊον n. `mummyfying linen' (pap. III^a; after μνώϊον Egypt. name of a container?).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [1101] *tu̯er- `fence (in)'

Etymology: Can (with Schulze KZ 28, 280 = Kl. Schr. 379) stand for *τϜορός and as agent noun belong to a verb `enclose etc.' in Lith. tveriù, tvérti `enclose, fence in, grasp, also `form, build'; so formally identical with Rruss. tvor `creature, form, shape' (: tvorítь `create, do, build'); cf. also Lith. ãptvaras (: ap-tvérti) `fence' a. o. -- WP. 1, 750f., Pok. 1101, Fraenkel a. Vasmer s. vv., also W.-Hofmann s. paries. Cf. σειρά and σωρός. - the etym. proposed seems possible but there is nothing to confirm it; would not *tu̯or- have given *τορ- (with early loss of the u̯)?

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