ἐγχεσί-μωρος

Grammatical information: adj.

Meaning: usually understood as `famous for his spear' (Il.).

Derivatives: Cf. ἰό-μωρος, adj. of the Αργεῖοι (Δ 242, Ξ 479). Imitation in ὑλακό-μωρος, of κύνες (ξ 29, π 4; cf Porzig Satzinhalte 239); s. also σινάμωρος.

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [704] * meh₁-ro- `great'

Etymology: The 2. member is since Osthoff PBBeitr. 13, 431ff. combined with Celtic, Germanic and Slavic PN, e. g. Welsh Nerto-mārus, OHG Volk-mār, Slav. Vladi-měrъ, IE *- mōros, *- mēros. Further are compared a denominative Germ. verb `proclaim', Goth. merjan etc. with the adj. Goth. waila-mereis `εὔφημος', OHG māri `famous' etc., and a Celt. adjective `great', e. g. OIr. mār. The ō-vocalism in Greek and Celt. agrees with the type ἄ-φρων: φρήν (Schwyzer 355). The form of the 1 member may be metrically determined (cf. ἐγχέσπαλος). Ruijgh, Elément achéen 93, asks whether it could contain μωρός `foolish'. - Cf. Leumann Hom. Wörter 37 and 272 n. 18.

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ἐγχεσί-μωρος, ον,

A fighting with the spear, Il.2.692, al., Od.3.188, Cerc.6.9: [comp] Comp., with play on μῶρος, AP11.16. (- μωρος is perh. cogn. with μάρναμαι.)

ἐγχεσί-μωρος, Leute, die mit Speeren kämpfen; Leute, deren Lanzen scharf oder spitz ( όξέα) sind

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `to rob, to pillage, to destroy, to damage' (ep. Od., Sapph., Ion., X., hell. a. late, also Argos, Crete, Herakleia; Hdt., Hp. also - έομαι; not in Att..

Other forms: very rare in aor.: ἐσίναντο (Hdt.), ἐπεσίνατο (Nic.), προσίναντες βλάψαντες H.

Dialectal forms: rarely with ἐπι-, κατα-, προ-.

Compounds: As 1. member in σιν-όδων, - όδους, - οντος m. name of a fish (Arist., Dorio a. o.), folketymol. for συν- σίνομαι (s. Strömberg 45). Unclear however σινάμωρος approx. `harmful, baneful, wicked, mischievous, sweet-toothed, lustful' with - ία, - έω, - ευμα (Ion., com., Arist. a. o.); because of the short ι not to the verb, but to the noun σίνος; the final fits badly with μωρός, perh. better to ἐγχεσί-μωρος, if taken as `spear-happy' (cf. Leumann Hom. Wörter 272 n. 18).

Derivatives: 1. σίνος n. `damage, harm, disaster' (Ion., A., Arist. a. o.) with ἀ-σινής `unharmed, harmless' (λ 110, Sapph., Ion., A., Pl., X., hell. a. late), opposite ἐπι-σινής (Thphr. a. o.). 2. σίντης m. `destroyer, robber', mostly of beasts of prey, `thief' (Il., hell. a. late epic); σίντωρ m. `id.' (Crete IV<sup>a</sup>, AP; Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 123 a. 131); uncertain Σίντιες m. pl. name of the old population of Lemnos (Hom. a.o.), after Kretschmer Glotta 30, 117 prop. "the robbers" and to be distinguished from the Thracian Σιντοι. 3. Σίνις, - ιδος m. name of a mythical robber (B., E., X. a. o.), also appellat. `robber, destroyer' (A. Ag. 217 [gener. changed to ἶνις], Call., Lyc.). 4. σιναρός `damaged' (Hp., as ῥυπαρός a. o.). 5. σινότης f. `damage, flaw' (gloss.). 6. ἐπισίνιος ἐπίβουλος H. 7. σινόω ( προ- σίνομαι) = σίνομαι (Man., Vett. Val. a. o.) with σινωτικός `harmful' (late). 8. σίνδρων = πονηρός (Phot.), also `slave born of a slave' (Seleukos ap. Ath.), also as PN; cf. Masson on Hipponax 121 w. n. 3; gen. pl. σινδρῶν πονηρῶν, βλαπτικῶν H.

Origin: XX [etym. unknown]

Etymology: The present σίνομαι (second. - έομαι; cf. Schwyzer 721) wit generalized length of the ι (on the unclear σίνονται Sapph. 26, 4 s. Hamm Gramm. $217a) can be best understood as yotformation *σίν-ι̯ομαι (Schwyzer 694). If inherited, σίνομαι must like κλίνω, κρίνω contain a present-forming ν, which spread not only to the sporadic aoristforms but also to the nouns σίνος, σίντης a. o. -- Not certainly explained. PGr. *τϜι-ν- can on itself be connected with σής (if from *τϜη[ι̯]-ς) and with Germ. Þwi- in OE Þwīnan `become weak, disappear' a. o. (Wood Mod. Phil. 5, 268); apart from the semant. polyinterpretability of the relevant words, there are both for σής and for Þwīnan other explanations, s. on σής and WP. 1, 702 f. (Pok. 1054) w. lit. To be rejected explanations of σίνομαι in W.-Hofmann s. sine and sonium; older lit. in Bq and Lidén IF 19, 351 w. n. 2. -- Cf. σιφλός.

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     ἐγχεσίμωρος

     ἐγχεσί-μωρος

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    неутомимо сражающийся копьем, воинственный

    

(Ἀρκάδες Hom.; Θεσσαλοί Anth.)

Grammatical information: n.

Meaning: `spear, lance' (Il.), also `weapon' in gen. (Pi., S.); on the meaning Schwyzer Glotta 12, 11, Trümpy Fachausdrücke 52ff.

Compounds: As 1st member in ἐγχέσ-παλος `speardrilling' (Hom.), - φόρος `carrying a spear' (Pi.); ἐγχεσί-μωρος (s. v.); after it - μαργος ἔγχει μαινόμενος H., EM, - χειρες pl. `weaponed with a spear' (Orph. Fr. 285, 18).

Derivatives: Also ἐγχείη (Hom.), after ἐλεγχείη: ἔλεγχος, ὀνειδείη: ὄνειδος etc. (Chantr. Form. 86f., Schwyzer 469). Diff. Kalén GHÅ 24 (1918): 1, 54ff. (old dual [?]); Tovar Emerita 11, 431ff. [?]. - Unclear is Έγχώ ἡ Σεμέλη οὕτως ἐκαλεῖτο.

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

Etymology: No etymology. Schwyzer Glotta 12, 10ff. (to ἀκαχμένος). S. also Tovar l. c. Probably Pre-Greek.

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Grammatical information: pl.

Meaning: adjunct of the Άργεῖοι (Δ 242, Ξ 479).

Origin: XX [etym. unknown]

Etymology: The explanation of the scholl. as `famous for their arrows' fails for the shortness of the ἰ- (on the contents also Bechtel Lex. s. v.). The added epithet ἀπειλάων ἀκόρητοι suggests (?) ἰά, ἰή `crying'; so does the expression βοην ἀγαθός and ὑλακό-μωροι ( κύνες ξ 29, π 4). Thus Ehrlich Sprachgeschichte 48, Bechtel Lex. s. v., Theander Eranos 15, 99ff. a. n. Cf. also Leumann Hom. Wörter 37 and 272 n. 18. On the 2. member s. ἐγχεσί-μωρος.

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