ἀ-κραίπαλος

Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `drinking-bout, headache' (Hp., Ar.).

Compounds: Compp. ἀ-κραίπαλος `without headache, liberating' (Arist., Dsc.), κραιπαλό-κωμος `assisting a bout' (Ar.).

Derivatives: κραιπαλώδης `given to drunkenness' (Phld., Plu.), κραιπαλάω `have a headache' (Ar., Pl., Plb.).

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

Etymology: Popular word in - άλη; cf. for the formation ἀγκάλη, μασχάλη, σκυτάλη etc. (Chantraine Formation 245ff.); further unclear. Connection to κραιπνός (Curtius 679f. w. n.) with ν: λ-change is probable and is also semantically not impossible, but not evident (cf. Solmsen KZ 30, 602f.). Wrong IE. explanations in Bq. Lat. LW [loanword] crāpula `id.' ( \> Fr. crapule) with long ā (it will continue the Pre-Greek variation αι\/ᾱ, Fur. 336ff.). See W.-Hofmann s. v.; also Ernout Aspects du vocab. latin 61 a. 67. See also André, Ant. Class. 33 (1964) 92f. - IE would require * kreh₂i-, which is improbable; so prob. Pre-Greek.

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