ἀμανάν ἅμαξαν

Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: ἅμαξαν H.

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

Etymology: von Blumenthal Hesychst. 34 assumes a loan from an unknown IE language, from *sm̥-aks-nā, cf. ἅμαξα; very uncertain. - Acc. to Bănăt̨eanu REIE 3, 145, Anatolian, comparing ἀπήνη (q.v.); thus Kuiper FS Kretschmer 213, Fur. 224; quite possible, a variation p\/m being well known in substr. words. Latte's suggestion of a corruption is gratuitous. Cf. καπάνα.

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ἁμαμιθάδες, αἱ,

A mince-meat, Phot.p.86R. [full] ἀμαμίξαι· ἀποπνῖξαι, Hsch. (Cf. ἀμαλίζω, ἀμμιάξαι.) [full] ἀμάναν· ἅμαξαν, Id. [full] ἀμανδαλοῖ· ἀφανίζει, Id. [full] ἀμάνδᾰλος, = ἀφανής, as if ἀμάλδανος fr. ἀμαλδύνω, Alc.123.

Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `wagon with four wheels' (Il.). Synonym of ἅμαξα, Delebecque Cheval 174f.

Other forms: πήνα· ἀπήνη H.

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

Etymology: Unknown. The first question is the relation with πήνα ἀπήνη H.; apocopated acc. to Strömberg Wortstudien 45; thus Fur. 374: the analysis must be ἀπ-ηνη; but rejected by Winter Prothet. Vokal 13 (if the ἀ- is a proth. vowel, the word would be a substr. word). Then there is the synonym καπᾱ́νᾱ (Xenarch. 11, Thess.), s. Güntert Reimwortbildungen 152; the agreement is remarkable, the word is hardly IE. Fur. 224 n. 96 compares γάπος ὄχημα. Τυρρηνοί H. He also adduces (285) λαμπήνη id. (with λαπίνη, which shows prenasalization; on λ\/zero see Fur. 392). Further one has compared ἀμανάν ἅμαξαν H. There is also Myc. apenewo, which would be drawing animals; but ἀπήνη will have -ᾱνᾱ. Bănăt̨eanu REIE 3, 141 thought the word is Anatolian (which amounts to saying that it is a substr. word), which DELG considers possible (but not because ἄμαξα is IE, q.v.!); Szemerényi, JHS 94 (1974) 149f. thought it could be Semitic. - The comparison with καπάνα is the most convincing and shows foreign (substr.) origin (κ-\/zero Fur. 391f.).

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