heofon-hwealf

Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `bosom, lap, gulf, bay, vale, womb' (Il.), also `fistulous ulcer under the skin' with κολπάριον `id.' (medic.).

Compounds: As 2. member e. g. in βαθύ-κολπος `with folds of the garment falling down deep' (Il.).

Derivatives: κολπώδης `bosom-like, full of bays' (E., Plb.); κολπίας `swelling in folds' ( πέπλος, A. Pers. 1060), `wind blowing from the bay', ἐγκολπίας `id.' (Arist.); Κολπίτης m. old name of Phoenicia (Steph. Byz.), pl. "inhabitants of the coast", name of an uncivilised people on the Red Sea (Philostr.; Redard Les noms grecs en - της 23, cf. also below on διακολπιτεύω); κολπόομαι, - όω `form a fold' (B., Hp.) with κόλπωσις, - ωμα `folding', - ωτός `folded'. Several prefixed forms in diff. functions; most hell.: ἐγ-, ἐπι-, ὑπο-κόλπιος, ἀνα-, ἐγ-, ἐπι-κολπόω, ἐγ-, κατα-, περι-κολπίζω etc. However ( δια-)κολπιτεύω `smuggle' ( PTeb. 709, 9; 14; II^a) hardly with Olsson Eranos 48, 157 to κόλπος `bosom', but rather to the people's-name Κολπῖται "inhabit. of the coast" (s. a.); thus ἔλαιον κολπιτικόν ( PTeb. 38, 12 u. 125; II<sup>a</sup>) `smuggle-oil'.

Origin: XX [etym. unknown]

Etymology: As κόλπος may stand for *κϜόλπος (s. Schwyzer 302, Lejeune Traité de phon. 72 n. 3), κόλπος can be connected with Germ. NHG wölben, as verbal noun (*"vaulting") to the in MHG walb `vaulted', OWNo, holfinn `id.' preserved primary verb, with as causative OWNo. huelfa, OHG (h)welben `vault', OE bi-hwelbian `vault above'. But for the gender κόλπος would be identical with OWNo. hualf, OE hwealf f. `vault' (Zupitza Die germ. Gutturale 54). But the comparison with OE heofon-hwealf `vault of heaven': αἰθέρος κόλποι (Pi. O. 13, 88) says nothing on the etymology, as the poetical Gr. expression is based on the idea of bosom. - Other connections, with Lat. calpar `earthen wine-vessel', culcita `cushion' etc. (s. W.-Hofmann s. vv., also Bq) have no value; wrong also Mann Lang. 17, 14. - From κόλπος VLat. colphus \> Ital. golfo.

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