dapu₂rito-

Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `labyrinth', great building with many corridors and turns, in Egypt (Hdt., Str.), Crete (Call., D. S.), Anatolia (inscr. Miletus) etc.; metaph. of complicated thoughts (Pl.);

Dialectal forms: Myc. dapu₂ritojo \/ laburinthojo\/

Compounds: λαβυρινθώδης `l.-like, complicated' (Arist.).

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

Etymology: Pre-Greek word in - ινθος, since long (M. Mayer Jb. d. deut. arch. Inst. 7 [1892], 191) connected with λάβρυς, after Plu. 2,302a Lydian for πέλεκυς, and as "House of the Double Axe" (as sign of royalty) interpreted; here also the Carian god Δαβραυνδος. Thus esp. Kretschmer Einleitung 404 and more, e. g. Glotta 28, 244 ff. ; s. also v. Wilamowitz Glaube 1, 121, Nilsson Gr. Rel. 1,276f. Güntert Labyrinth 1ff. connects λαύρα, `stony, plastered street v. s.' (s. v.; but not to *λᾶϜας `stone' ( λάβρυς prop. *"stone axe"), with λέπας, Lat. lapis etc., which was by Kretschmer Glotta 22, 252 f. and Specht KZ 66, 33 f. for phonetic reasons rightly rejected. For connection with λαύρα, [ λᾶας] also Brandenstein Sprache 2, 72 ff. (against it Messing Lang. 30, 107), Deroy Glotta 35, 173ff. After Kretschmer Sprache 2, 152 ff. λαβύρινθος in the meaning `terraced building' (Apollotemple in Didyma) perhaps a contamination with λαύρα(?). - New theory by Gallavotti Par. del Pass. 12, 161 ff.: because of Myc. dapu₂ rito = λαβύρινθος from *δαβύρινθος as `protoidg.' to θάπτω etc.

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Grammatical information: f. (m.)

Meaning: `soot' (Hippon.). ἀσβολόεν μέγα, ὑψηλόν (= ψολόεν Latte), μέλαν H. (for μέγα read also μέλαν; its final ν was read as υ, which led to the interpretation of υψολοεν as ὑψηλόν).

Other forms: Also ἀσβόλη f. (Semon.)

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

Etymology: Unknown. One compared words for `ashes', `dry', like Gr. ἄζω `wither', Goth. azgo, OHG. asca `ashes'. But - βόλος would remain unclear; hardly to βάλλω. Fur. 154f considers it a substr. word, which is undoubtedly correct: note the rare group - σβ-. He compares σποδός `soot', which is unexplained. He further points to σποδίτης ( ἄρτος) `bread baked in hot ashes', which is also called σπολεύς (Philet. ap. Ath. 3, 114e; corrected by Frisk to *σποδεύς!) For δ\/λ cf. λαβύρινθος, Myc. dapu₂rito-. Finally, 393 n. 21 he asks whether the group is identical with ψόλος `soot' (A.); I think that this is most probable (but not to ψόθος `dirt'); on σπ\/ψ Fur. 393.

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