Elembiu

Grammatical information: m., f.

Meaning: `deer, deer-cow' (Il.). (Cf. Schwyzer-Debrunner 31.)

Compounds: Note ἐλαφη-βόλος (with rhythmically preferable - η- for - ο-, Schwyzer 438f. m. Lit.) `killing deer' (Σ 319 a. o.) with ἐλαφηβολία `deer-hunt' (S.), ἐλαφηβόλια (sc. ἱερά) n. pl. name of a Artemis feast (Phocis), from where the month name Έλαφηβολιών (treaty in Th. 4, 118). As 2. member in determinative compp., τραγ-έλαφος `buck-deer' (Ar., Pl.; cf. Risch IF 59, 56), ἱππ-, ὀν-, ταυρ-έλαφος (Arist.).

Derivatives: Diminut. ἐλάφιον (Ar. Th. 1172), ἐλαφίνης `young deer, deer-calf' (Aq., H.; s. Chantr. Form. 203); ἐλαφῆ `deer-skin' (Poll.); ἐλαφίαι οἱ τῶν ἐλάφων ἀστράγαλοι H.; ἐλαφίς name of a waterbird (Dionys. Av. 2, 11); s. Thompson Birds s. v.; ἐλάφειος `of a deer' (X., Arist.); ἐλάφειον and ἐλαφικόν as plant names (Ps.-Dsc.), s. Strömberg Pflanzennamen 118, Wortstudien 50. - On Elaphe as name of a kind of snake and NGr. dialectforms λαφιάτης etc. s. Georgakas Μνήμης χάριν 1, 119f., 124f.

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [303] * h₁el-en- `deer

Etymology: The side-form ἐλλός `deer-calf' (τ 228, Ant. Lib. 28, 3), which (with Aeolic development?) can stay for *ἐλ-νος (Lejeune Traité de phonétique 132, Schwyzer 284), can be connected with a widespraed name for the deer: Arm. eɫn, gen. eɫin, Lith. élnis, OCS jelenь, Celt., e. g. Welsh. elain, OWelsh month name Elembiu (: Έλαφηβολιών?, s. Kořínek below); note also ἔνελος νεβρός H. (from * elen- ?); the n-stem also in ἔλαφος \< *eln̥-bho-s (cf. Skt. vŕ̥ṣan-: vr̥ṣa-bhá- and Schwyzer 495, Chantraine 263). Unclear Toch. A yäl `antilope, gazelle'. On Goth. etc. lamb `lam' (very doubtful) s. Kořínek Listy filol. 62, 280ff. - Further uncertain connections s. 2. ἄλκη `Elch'; s. also Bechtel Lex. s. v., Fraenkel Lit. et. Wb. s. élnis, Vasmer Russ. et. Wb. s. olénь, Porzig Gliederung 210.

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