laikatis

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `ring, rattle' (only λᾰκεῖν), `crash' (- ληκέω), (λᾱκέω), `shout, scream, speak loudly'; on the meaning Björck Alpha impurum 280 ff. (A., E., Ar.).

Other forms: Lengthened λασκάζει φλυαρεῖ, θωπεύει H., ἐπι-ληκέω (θ 379), (δια-)λᾱκέω (Ar. Nu. 410, Theoc., Act. Ap. 1, 18), λᾰκάζω (A.), also λάω in ( ὀξὺ) λάων? (cf. s.v.), aor. λᾰκεῖν (Il., trag.), λελᾰκέσθαι (h. Merc.), λᾰκῆσαι (Ar. Pax 382), -λᾱκῆσαι (Ar. Nu. 410), fut. λακήσομαι (Ar. Pax 381,384), perf. λέληκα (X 141), λέλᾱκα (A. in lyr., E., Ar.).

Derivatives: 1. From λακεῖν: λάκος ἦχος, ψόφος; λακερόν ἠχαῖον (cod. εἰκαῖον) H., λακέρυζα `screaming' ( κορώνη Hes.; also κύων, second. - ζος; Schwyzer 473 472 A. 3) with λακερύζω, - ομαι (EM, H., Phot., Suid.), but s. on λαγκύζεσθαι; λακέτᾱς (λᾱκ-?) `kind of cicada' (Ael.; cf. Gil Emer. 25,318); λάκημα `fragment' (cf. Björck 282; at least partly to λακίς, s. v.). 2. From ληκέω, λᾱκέω: Λακητήρ spit of land of Kos (Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 162); here also Ληκήτρια f. name of a goddess (Lyc. 1391) after Schwyzer RhMus. 75, 448 (codd. Ληκτηρ-); ληκητής `cryer' and λᾱκεδόνες f. pl. `bawling' (Timo). To the old pair λᾰκεῖν: λέλᾱκα, - ηκα (cf. κρᾰγεῖν κέκρᾱγα a. o.) the other forms were created: to λᾰκεῖν: λάσκω (from *λάκ-σκω; cf. below), λᾰκάζω, λᾰκῆσαι, λελᾰκέσθαι (old?); to λέλᾱκα, - ηκα: λᾱκέω, ληκέω, λᾱκῆσαι, perhaps also λάω (s.v.); λακήσομαι allows both interpretations as the quantity is uncertain.

Origin: XX [etym. unknown]

Etymology: No certain connections outside Greek. Jokl Untersuchungen 205 compares Alb. laikatis `flatter, persuade'. Without the κ ( λάσκω = λά-σκω) doubting W. P. Schmid IF 62, 238 n. 68; unconvincing) we can connect the words discussed sub λῆρος. WP. 2, 376 f., Pok. 658 f.(?), also W.-Hofmann s. loquor. - Root speculations in Ammer Sprache 2, 210.

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