ἠκαλέον γελόωσα πράως

ἠκάδα· ἠνδρωμένην γυναῖκα, Hsch. [full] ἠκαῖον· ἀσθενές, Id. [full] ἤκαλος, ον,

A = ἀκαλός, Call.Fr.27 P.:—also [full] ἠκαλέον γελόωσα· πράως, οὐκ ἐσκυθρωπακυῖα, Hsch. [full] ἤκᾰχε, v. ἀχεύω, ἀχέω (A) 11.1.

Grammatical information: adv.

Meaning: `slowly, still, a little' (Il.);

Other forms: adj. compar. ἥττων, Ion. ἥσσων `smaller, weaker' (Il.), superl. ἤκιστος `slowest' (Ψ 531), adv. ἥκιστα `the least, not at all' (IA), ἥκιστος `weakest, schlimmster' (Ael.).

Compounds: IE [896] *sēk- `slow, quiet'

Derivatives: From ἦκα: ἤκαλος = ἀκαλός (Call.), ἠκαλέον γελόωσα πράως, οὑκ ἐσκυθρωπακυῖα; ἠκαῖον ἀσθενές H. - From ἥσσων, ἥττων: ἡσσάομαι, ἡττάομαι `be less, be weaker' (after νικάομαι) with the backformation ἧσσα, ἧττα f. `defeat' (trag., Th., IA.); Ion. (Hdt., Herod.) has ἑσσόομαι (from *ἕσσων, innovation after κρέσσων). With ἦκα (with ep. psilosis like ἤκιστος; cf. Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 187) cf. ὦκα and other adverbs in -ᾰ (Schwyzer 622). Cognate is acc. to Froehde BB 16, 192, Osthoff IF 5, 297 Lat. sēgnis `slow' \< * sēc-ni-s; on the n-suffix cf. πύκ-α: πυκ-νός and Benveniste Origines 89f. Details in Seiler Steigerungsformen 65ff.

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [896] * seh₁k- (or *sēk-?) `slow'

Etymology: Not to ἦκα belong (Bechtel Lex. 156) ἀκήν, ἀκαλά; against it Buttmann Lexilogus 1, 13f.

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