pelH-

Grammatical information: Adv.

Meaning: `near, nearby' (Od.); ὁ πέλας `nearest one, neighbour, next one' (IA.). Beside it 1. the nasalpresent πίλναμαι ( πίλ-ν-α-μαι), - νάω, also w. ἐπι-, προσ-, `to draw near' (Il.; for the formation cf. κίρνημι s. κεράννυ-μι); 2. the athem. aor. πλῆ-το (Il.), with which ἐπλά̄-θην (trag. in lyr.), πέ-πλη-μαι (Od.), πλά̄-θω (trag. in lyr.); 3. the σ-aor. πελά-σ(σ)αι `to draw near', also `to bring near', midd. - σασθαι, pass. - σθῆναι (Il.), to which as new presents πελάζω, also w. ἐμ-, ἐπι-, προσ- (Ε 766), πελάθω (trag. in lyr.), πελάω, ἐμ- πέλας (h. Hom. 7, 44, hell.); fut. πελῶ (Att.).

Derivatives: 1. πελά-της, Dor. - τας m. `one who comes near, serf, jobber' (trag., Pl.; Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 42), f. - τις (Plu.), with - τικός (D.H.); ἐμπελά-τειρα f. = πελάτις (Call., Euph.); 2. πέλα-σις f. ( ἐμ-, προσ-) `approach' (S.E., Procl.); 3. ἄ-πλη-τος (ep.), ἄ-πλᾱ-τος (Dor., trag.) `unapproachable, appalling'; 4. πλᾶ-τις, - ιδος f. `wife' (Ar., Lyc.); 5. τειχεσι-πλῆτα voc. surn. of Ares (Ε 31, 455; meaning unclear, cf. below and Fraenkel l.c.); 6. πλήτης πλησιαστής H. (from 5. concluded?). -- On δασπλῆτις s. v. -- Old adv. πλησίον (Il.), Aeol. πλά̄-σιον, Dor. πλᾱτίον `near', beside which the adj. πλησίος `standing nearby, neighbouring' (ep. ion. Il.); as 1. member e.g. in πλησιό-χωρος `neighbouring' (IA.). From this πλησι-ότης f. `neighbourhood' (A. D.); πλησι-άζω (Dor. πλᾱτι-) `to approach, to accompany, to associate with' (Att.) with - ασμός, - ασμα, - ασις (Arist.).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [801] * pelh₂- `push'

Etymology: No certain agreement outside Greek. After Lobeck in Curtius 278 orig. "striking against (anstoßend)" (cf. ἴκταρ with several meaning parallels); further to Lat. pellō `push', Celt., e.g. OIr. ad-ella (\< * pel-nā-t = Lat. appellat) `visits', fut. eblaid \< * pi-plā-seti `will drive' (Froehde BB. 3, 308 resp. Vendryes MSL 16, 301 f.). Traces of this more concrete meaning can perh. still be found in expressions like πέλασε χθονί `threw to the ground', ὀδύνησι πελάζειν `sink in sorrow'; also in τειχεσι-πλῆτα as surn. of Ares ("wall-stormer ?). So πέλας as old nom. (- acc.; Schwyzer 516 n. 620) prop. "(first) push"; similar πλᾱτίον, πλησίον lengthened from an adverbial *πλᾱ-τ-ι (Schw. 621, 623)? The weakness of this in itself quite possible explanation lies in the absence of certain morphological criteria; the Celt. forms seem to agree in ablaut with the Greek ones (IE * pelh₂-, plā-); cf. OIr. adella `visits' and πλησιάζει `associates with'. Further forms w. lit. in WP. 2, 57f., Pok. 801 f., W.-Hofmann s. pellō. Vgl. πλήν, πλήσσω.

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Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `citadel, fort, city, city community, state' (Il.; on the meaning in Hom. Hoffmann Festschr. Snell 153ff.).

Other forms: Also (ep. Cypr. Thess.) πτόλις, - εως, Ion. - ιος, - ηος;

Dialectal forms: Myc. potorijo has been interpreted as *Πτολίων.

Compounds: As 1. member e.g. in πτολί-πορθος (- πόρθιος, - πόρθης) `sacking cities, destroyer of cities' (ep. Il.); enlarged in IA. πολιοῦχος (from - ιο-ουχ.); Dor. πολι-ά̄-οχος, - ιᾶχος, ep. πολι-ή-οχος `ruling a city, city protector'; in A. also the unexplained πολισσο- in πολισσοῦχος, πολισσο-νομέω. Very often as 2. member, e.g. ἀκρο-πολις = πόλις ἄκρη `upper town, citadel' (Od.); on this and on the other compp. Risch IF 59, 261 ff.

Derivatives: 1. expressive enlargement πτολί-εθρον n. (ep. Il.); cf. μέλαθρον, θέμεθλα, ἔδεθλον (Schwyzer 533). 2. Diminut. πολίχνη f., often as PlN (IA.) with - ίχνιον (Att.); πολίδιον (ῑ̆) n. (Str.). 3. Πολιεύς (- ηύς) m. `city guardian' (Thera before V<sup>a</sup>, Arist., hell.; Bosshardt 60); f. Πολιάς (IA., Arg.). 4. πολίτης (ῑ; ep., Sapph., Att.), πολι-ά̄-τας, - ή-της (Dor. Aeol., Β 806, Ion.; after οἰκιά-τας, - ιή-της a.o.) m. `citizen, townsman', f. - ῖτις (S., E., Pl.); from this πολιτ-ικός `civic, political' (Hdt. 7, 103, Att.; Chantraine Études 123); - εύομαι, - εύω `to be citizen, to take part in state affairs' (Att. etc.; πολιατεύω Gortyn) with - εία, Ion. - ηίη, - ευμα (Hdt., Att.; on the meaning Wilhelm Glotta 14, 78ff., 83f., Papazoglou REGr. 72, 100ff. resp. Ruppel Phil. 82, 268ff., Engers Mnem. 54, 154ff.); also πολιτισμός `administration' (D. L.; - ισμός analog., Chantraine Form. 143). 5. Denominat. πολίζω, aor. - ίσ(σ)αι, rare a. late with ἐν-, συν- a.o., `to found (a city), to cultivate a place by founding a city' (ep. Ion., X.) with πόλ-ισμα `foundation (of a city)' (Ion. poet., Th.; Chantraine Form. 189), - ισμάτιον (hell.), - ισμός `foundation of a city' (D. H., Lyd.), - ιστής `founder of a city' (Poll. 9, 6; rejected).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [799] * pelH- `fortification' from * pelH- `pout'?

Etymology: The byform πτόλις (also Arc. Πτόλις, name of the castle in Mantinea; Thess. οἱ ττολίαρχοι w. assim.) is not convincingly explained. Hypotheses w. further details in Schwyzer 325 (w. lit.); further Kretschmer Glotta 22, 206, Deroy Ant. class. 23, 305ff., Merlingen Μνήμης χάριν 2, 57, Ruijgh L'élém. ach. 75ff., 112 n. 4 (cf. also on πτόλεμος). To be rejected the identification of πόλις from *pu̯olis with Arm. k'alak` `town' (Winter Lang. 31,8).-- Old word for `castle, refugecastle', except in Greek further only in the east attested (cf. Kretschmer Glotta 22, 107, Porzig Gliederung 173): Skt. pū́r f., acc. púr-am, Lith. pilìs f. Both the Skt. and the Lith. word show zero grade, which has also been considered possible for πόλις (Schwyzer 344); the i-stem in πόλ-ις and pil-ìs is secondary enlargement. Thee repeated proposals, to connect this very ancient word for `citadel' with the verb for `fill' ( πίμπλημι; since Pott) or for `dump' (Lith. pìlti; Fick; lastly Fraenkel Zeitschr. slav. Phil. 6, 91), has as unproven hypothesis not much interest. -- WP. 2, 51, Pok. 799, Mayrhofer and Fraenkel s. vv. w. further details a. lit.

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Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `threat', also `promise' (Il.).

Derivatives: ἀπειλέω `threaten' (Il.).

Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [985 ] * h₂pelH-? `speak publicly'

Etymology: Unknown. - If to Latv. pel̂t `revile' it would be * h₂pel-. Further have been compared (with s- mobile) Goth. spill n. `fable' etc., also Arm. ar̄a-spel `legend, proverb' (Lidén GHÅ 39: 2, 46ff.), in which case the s- would be difficult (Armenian also vocalizes the initial laryngeal). LIV 525 assumes *( s)pelnH-, as nasal present (with secondary full grade) and compares Toch. A pällāntär, B pällātär `praise'.

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Grammatical information: n.

Meaning: `offing, high sea, sea surface, sea' (Il.); on the meaning etc. Lesky Herm. 78, 260ff.).

Compounds: Rare late compp. like πελαγο-δρόμος `sailing on, flying over the sea' (Orph., PMag. Par.), εὑ-πελαγής `lying by a fair sea' (Orph.).

Derivatives: πελάγ-ιος `belonging to the sea' (trag., Th., X., Arist.; after ἅλ-ιος, θαλάσσ-ιος), - ικός `id.' (Plu.), - ῖτις f. `id.' (AP); - αῖος surn. of Poseidon (Paus.; after Άγοραῖος etc.). Verbs: πελαγ-ίζω, also with ἐν-, `to form a sea, to be flooded, to be out in the open sea, to sail on the sea' (Hdt., X., Str.) with - ισμοί pl. `experiences at sea' v.t. (Alciphr.); - όομαι `to form a sea, to overflow' (Ach. Tat.).

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

Etymology: Beside πέλαγος stand with final tenuis monosyll. and w. short vowel πλάξ, - ακός f. `plain, plain of the sea etc.' (s. v.); with voiced consonant πλάγ-ιος `athwart, transvers, sloping, crooked', s.v. w. further connections, a.o. Lat. plag-a `plain, region'. A full grade disyllabic form is further not attested, but may be found with diff. suffix in πέλανος (s. v.). (Not here the `zero grades' παλάμη, παλαστή (s. vv.). On the formation of πέλαγος cf. further τέναγος, σελαγέω (Schwyzer 496). S. also Πελασγοί. - Nothing confirms the connection of this word with * pelh₂- `spread out'; the words with πλαγ\/κ- cannot phonetically be connected. So the word seems rather Pre-Greek.

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Grammatical information: adj.

Meaning: `level, athwart, crooked', τὰ πλάγια `the sides, flanks' (Pi., IA.).

Compounds: Some compp., e.g. πλαγιό-καυλος `with side-stalks' (Thphr.; Strömberg Theophrastea 108f.), παρα-πλάγιος `sideways, oblique' (Thphr.).

Derivatives: πλαγι-άζω `to turn amiss, sideward, to lead astray' (LXX, Ph., Plu.) with - ασμός m. `lateral direction, aberrance' (Epicur.); - όω `id.' (X.) with - ωσις H. as explanation of λόξωσις. --Besides, either as backformation (after πλάτος a.o.) or as independent verbal noun (cf. bel.), πλάγος n. `side' (Tab. Heracl.).

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

Etymology: Formation with ιο-suffix (Schwyzer 466) from a noun `horizontal plain, obliquity' (cf. Lat. plag-a `quarter, region etc.') or from a verb `flatten', which is also assumed in πέλαγος (s. v.); here from Germ. e.g. OHG flah ' flach', OS flaka f. `sole of the foot'; with monosyll. full grade also OWNo. flōki m., OE flōc n. `flounder' (IE * plāg- = * pleh₂g- beside * pelǝg- = * pelh₂g-(?) in πέλαγος). -- WP. 2, 90f., Pok. 832, W.-Hofmann s. plaga w. further forms a. lit. -- Cf. πλάξ, also πλήσσω. - The form cannot be IE, a the short α cannot be explained; so Pre-Greek?

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Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `plane, plain, surface of a sea, a mountain' (Pi., trag.), `flat stone, board, table' (hell.).

Compounds: As 2. member prob. in δί-πλαξ (s. v. and Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 37 n. 4) and τρί-πλαξ.

Derivatives: 1. Dimin. πλακ-ίον n. (Troizen IV^a), - ίς κλινίδιον... H. 2. - άς f. `floor of a wine cellar' (pap. II<sup>p</sup>). 3. - ίτας ἄρτος `flat cake' (Sophr.), - ῖτις f. `kind of calamine or alum' (Gal.). 4. Adj. - ερός `flat' (Theoc.), - όεις `id.' (D.P.), - ινος `made of marble slabs' (inscr.), - ώδης `overdrawn with panes, a crust' (Arist.). 5. - οῦς, - οῦντος (from - όεις) m. `(flat) cake' (com. etc.) with - ούντ-ιον, - ικός. - ινος, - ᾶς a.o. 6. - όω `to cover with slabs of marble' (Syria) with - ωσις f. (Asia Minor), - ωτή f. `kind of calamine' (Dsc.). 7. PlN: Πλάκος m. name of a side-branch of the Ida (mountain) (Il.) with ὑποπλάκ-ιος (Z 397), - ος (Str.); Πλακίη f. name of a Pelasg. colony on the Propontis (Hdt.) with πλακιανόν n. name of a eye-unguent (Aët.).

Origin: XX [etym. unknown]

Etymology: With pl. πλάκ-ες agrees exactly a northgerm. word, OWNo. flær f. pl. `rock-terrace', PGm. * flah-iz, IE *plák-es; to this the innovated sg. flā, PGm. * flah-ō (would be Gr. *πλάκ-η). To this several Germ. words: with grammatic change Nord. flaga f., MLG vlage f. `thin layer (of the earth), flatness'; with long vowel: OWNo. flō f. `layer, course' (PGm. * flōh-ō), OHG fluoh, NHG Flüche, Schweiz. Fluh f. `rockwall' etc. From Balt. still e.g. Lett. plaka f. `low lying place, plain', also `cow's excrement', plakt `become flat'. Here prob. also with metaph. meaning Lat. placidus `quiet, calm, still' (orig. meaning `even, flat' still in aqua placida a.o.?), placeō `be pleasant'. -- Beside IE plak stands with final voiced cons. plag- in πλάγιος, (doubtful πέλαγος, s. vv.), all velar enlargements of an in no language retained verb * pelā- `broaden'(?); s. also πλάσσω, παλάμη, παλαστή; to this WP. 2, 90 f., Pok. 831 f., W.-Hofmann s. placeō w. further forms and rich lit. -- From πλακοῦς, - οῦντος with unclear development Lat. placenta `a kind of flat cake'; s. W.-Hofmann s. v. (cf. also pollenta `peeled barley'). -- A form * plak- is impossible in IE; the root * pelh₂- cannot give a short a in Greek. So πλακ- must be a loan (from a Eur. substratum?)

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Grammatical information: Prep. w. gen.

Meaning: `except', adv. a. conj. `except, aside from, save that, however' (θ 207).

Other forms: Dor. Aeol. πλάν.

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [801] * pelh₂- referring to nearness

Etymology: As the opposite δήν (s. v.) a frozen acc. from a noun *πλᾱ-, *πλη- (to πέλας, πλησίον), so prop. `in the vicinity (of), near (to)'; cf. ἔμπλην. Details w. lit. in Schwyzer-Debrunner 542 f. To be rejected Prellwitz Glotta 19, 116.

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Grammatical information: adj.

Meaning: `much, many, often' (Il.).

Other forms: πολλή, πολύ, Ion. poet. alo πολλός, πολλόν.

Compounds: As 1. member very productive, e.g. πολύ-τροπος `much-wandering, much-turned, wily' (of Odysseus, Hermes a.o.; Od., h. Merc.), `many-shaped' (Th.); on the meaning Kakridis Glotta 11, 288 ff.; on the πολυ-compp. in Hom. in gen. Stanford ClassPhil. 45, 108ff.; besides rarely πολλα-, e.g. πολλα-πλάσιος, - πλήσιος `manifold' (IA.), as δεκα-πλάσιος, πολλά-κις a.o.; s. also δι-πλάσιος. Compar. a. superl. πλείων, πλέων, πλεῖστος (from * pleh₁-is-to-), s. v.; innovation πόλιστος (Tab. Heracl.), s. Seiler Steigerungsformen 61.

Derivatives: πολλότης f. `plurality' (Damasc.), πολλ-οστός "the manieth", `one of many, small' (Att.; after εἰκοστός a. o.), - άκις (ep. lyr. also - κι) `often' (Il.; like δεκά-κις a.o.; explanation uncertain, s. Schwyzer 299 a. 597) a. o.

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [800] * p(e)lh₁-u- `many'

Etymology: Beside πολύς, -ύ stand the zero grade Skt. purú- `many' (IE *pl̥h₁ú-) and the full grade Celt., e.g. OIr. il `many', and Germ., e.g. Goth. OHG filu `many' (IE * pelh₁u-). For the full grade forms orig. subst. function is most prob. ("quantity, mass, fullness"); opposed is the certain zero grade Skt. adj. purú-; one would like to assume zero grade also for πολύς (so for *παλύς? Schmidt KZ 32, 382, Specht KZ 59, 111 w. diff. explanations; cf. also πόλις). -- The geminated πολλο-, πολλᾱ- agree with the (semant.) close μεγα-λο-, -λᾱ- and could be explained by loss of a syll. from *πολυ-λο-, -λᾱ-. More in Schwyzer 265 w. lit. a. discussion of other interpretations; on the inflection etc. Schwyzer 584. The word for `many' is a very old deriv. of the verb for `fill' (s. πίμπλημι). -- WP. 2, 64f., Pok. 800, W.-Hofmann s. plūs, Mayrhofer s. purú- w. further forms a. lit.

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