ῥικ-νός

Grammatical information: adj.

Meaning: `bent, crooked, shrivelled (of age, dryness, cold), stiff' (ep. poet. h.Ap.); ῥικνοφυεῖς τὰς στρεβλὰς καὶ πεπιεσμένας H.

Compounds: ἐπί-ρρικνος `somewhat bent' (X., Poll.).

Derivatives: ῥικν-ήεις `id.', enlarged form (Nic.); - ότης = καμπυλότης H.; - ώδης `shrivelled' (Hp., AP); ῥικνόομαι, rarely with κατα-, δια-, `to shrivel, to contract, to contort' (S., Arist., Opp.) with ῥίκνωσις f. `shrivelling, wrinkledness' (Hp.). -- Beside it ῥοικός `crooked, bowlegged' (Archil., Hp., Arist.). -- Further ῥικάζεται H. as explanation (beside στροβεῖται) of ῥιξικάζεται (s.v.).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [1158] *wroiḱ- `turn, envelop, crooked'

Etymology: With ῥικ-νός: ῥοικ-ός cf. e.g. πικ-ρός: ποικ-ίλος. With ῥοικός agree Lith. ráišas (raĩšas) `limping, lame' (cf. for the meaning κυλλός `crooked, crippled'), Germ., MEng. wrāh `wrong, stubborn', NDutch wreeg `stiff', formally also Av. urvaēsa m. `whirlwind, tuningpoint of the racecourse', IE *u̯riḱo-s m. approx. `turning, curvature', adj. `turned, crooked'. Beside it from IE *u̯reiḱo-s a.o. MLG wrīch `forbidden, distorted, fixed, stiff etc.' Corresponding primary verbs: a zero grade yot-present in Av. urvis-ya- `turn in circles, turn about'; a full grade root-present in OE wrēon (PGm. *u̯rīhan, IE *u̯reiḱ-) with pret. wrāh (PGm. *u̯raih, IE *u̯roiḱ-a) `envelop' (on the meaning cf. εἰλύω and 2. εἰλέω; s.vv.). A denominative or deverbative deriv. is the ἅπ. λεγ ῥικάζεται H.; the form ῥιξικά-ζεται, thus glossed (and with στροβεῖται), must, if at all rightly transmitted, be an expressive enlargement; cf. Baunack Phil. 70, 370. -- Further representatives of this richly developed root in WP. 1, 278 f.. Pok. 1158f., W.-Hofmann s. rīca ('enveloping kerchief'; IE *u̯reiḱā), Fraenkel s. ráišas 1.; there rich lit.

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