ὀδμ-αλέος

ὀδμ-ᾰλέος, α, ον,

A strong-smelling, stinking, Hp.Morb.4.56.

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `to smell, to scent' (ion. att.)

Other forms: ὄσδω, - ομαι (Theoc., Xenoph.) with ὀζῆσαι, ὀζήσω (Att.), also ὀζέσαι, - έσω (Hp. Superf., hell.), plupf. ὀδώδει (Od.), perf. ὄδωδα (hell.).

Compounds: Also w. prefix as ἀπ-, προσ-. As 1. member in the governing comp. ὀζό-στομος `with smelling breath' (AP, M. Ant.), as 2. member in plantnames like κυν-όζ-ολον (Ps.-Dsc.); cf. Strömberg 60f.

Derivatives: 1. ὀδμή (Il.), ὀσμή (Att., Hippon.; on σμ from δμ below) f. `odour, scent'; as 2. member e.g. in εὔ-οδμος, - οσμος `sweet-smelling, odorous' (Pi.), also in ὄνοσμα n. plantname? (Dsc.; Strömberg 61); from it ὀδμ-αλέος (Hp.), - ήεις (Nic.), - ηνός (H.; cod. ὄδ-) `strong-smelling'; ὀσμ-ώδης (Arist., Thphr.), - ηρός, - ήρης (Nic.) `id.'; ὀσμύλ-η, - ος, - ιον `strong-smelling octopus' (Ar., Arist.), ὀσμ-ίτης (Gloss.), - ῖτις (Ps.-Dsc.) plantname (Redard 75), - άς f. = ὄνοσμα (Dsc.); ὀδμ-, ὀσμ-άομαι `to scent' (ion., Arist.) with - ησις (Aret.). -- 2. From the present: ὄζ-αινα f. = ὀσμύλη (Call.), `stinking adenoid' (Gal.) with - αινικός `belonging to the ὄζαινα' (Ps.-Dsc.); ὄζολις f. = ὀσμόλη (Arist.); ὄζη f. `malodorant breath' (Cels.), `skin of the wild ass' (Suid.; because of the smell); ὀζηλίς ἡ βοτάνη (Theognost.); ὀζώδης = ὀδμώδης (EM, sch.); also Όζόλαι m. pl. name of a Locrian people (Hdt., Str., Plu. with diff. interpretations)? Lengthened present ὀζαίνομαι = ὄζω (Sophr.; after ὀσφραίνομαι; Schwyzer 733 w. lit.). -- 3. From the perf.: ὀδωδή f. `scent' (AP). -- 4. - ώδης in εὑ-ώδης `sweet-smelling, odorous' (Il.) etc.; very productive with quite faded meaning (Chantraine Form. 429 ff., Schwyzer 426 w. lit.).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [772] * h₃ed- `smell'

Etymology: Apart from the perf. ὄδωδα all verbal forms are innovations based on the pres. ὄζω. The derivations too are based largely on th present. On its own are however ὀδωδή (derived from the perfect?), but also the in Greek isolated ὀδμή and - ώδης. Both can be old, if ὀδμή agrees with Alb. amë `unpleasant smell' (IE * od-mā), - ώδης represents the s-stem of Lat. odor, OLat. odōs, prob. seen also in Arm. hot, gen. -oy (h- second.) `smell, odour', IE * odos-, either with compositional lengthening or with old lengthened grade (IE * ōdos-; cf. Lith. úodžiu below) as in Arm. -ut (e.g. hr-ut = πυρώδης from hur = πῦρ) beside -ot (e.g. bor-ot `w. florescence'). However ὀσμή not with Brugmann Grundr.<sup>2</sup> II: 1, 251 a.o. from *ὀδ-σ-μά̄ but purely phonetically from ὀδ-μά̄, s. Schwyzer 208; cf. also ὀσφραίνομαι. -- Both IE * od-mā and * odos- presuppose a primary rootpresent, which is retained in themat. form in Lat. ol-ō, ol-ĕre (with l for d); beside it the more usual innovation ol-e-ō, - ēre (after the intransitives). The yot-pressent ὄζω differs only in the vowellength from Balt., e.g. Lith. úodžiu `smell'; we now know that the Baltic form has a long vowel because of Winter's Law (lengthening before voiced consonant). Arm. hot-im `smell' is a denominative of hot (s. above). To the redupl. perf. ὄδ-ωδ-α presents the Arm. pres. hot-ot-im (with intensive reduplication) a close formal parallel. -- Further forms w. rich lit. in WP. 1, 174, Pok. 772f., W.-Hofmann s. odor, Ernout-Meillet s. odor (important for the morphology); cf. Porzig Gliederung 177 and Satzinhalte 289.

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