ἀπὸ+τοῦ+κάρα+τὸ+πλεῖστον+γὰρ+μέρος+τοῦ+σώματος+ἡ+κεφαλη+ἀπηνέγκατο

Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `name of small crustaceans; see Thompson Fishes s. v.

Other forms: - ίδος (Anan., old com.), - ῖδος (middl. com.), also κουρίς, κωρίς (Epich., Sophr.)

Derivatives: καρίδιον (Arist.), καριδάριον (Anaxandr.); καριδόω ( τὸ σῶμα) `(move the body) like a καρίς, wriggle, twist about like a shrimp' (Anaxandr.)

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

Etymology: Acc. to Ath. 3, 106b ἀπὸ τοῦ κάρα τὸ πλεῖστον γὰρ μέρος τοῦ σώματος ἡ κεφαλη ἀπηνέγκατο, clearly a folketymology, which was accepted by Ehrlich KZ 39, 556f.: κᾱρίς from *καρσ-ίς, κουρίς, κωρίς aus *κορσίς; for the last basis in any case there is no support (cf. on κόρση). Rather to κάραβος as popular short form; also κουρίς, κωρίς must be popular formations. Bechtel, Gr. Dial. 1, 58 a. 2, 243f. assumed *καϜαρις resp. *κωϜαρις. Cf. Adjarian Mélanges Boisacq 1, 4, who considers καρίς together with Arm. karič `scorpion' as an Asiatic loan. The variation is not understood; DELG pleads for an association with κώρα, κούρα `girl' (hardly understandable). The variation may well point to a Pre-Greek word.

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