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1 ἄκρος
Grammatical information: adj.Meaning: `at the farthest point, topmost, outermost' (Il.). Old ἄκρα f., ἄκρον n. `highest or farthest point, headland, cape'; Hom. κατ' ἄκρης ( πόλιος) `from the highest point down' hence `completely, utterly', also κατ' ἄκρηθεν (which became κατὰ κρῆθεν through association with κάρα), s. Leumann Hom. Wörter 56ff.Compounds: ἀκρόπολις (Od.; the Iliad still has ἄκρη πόλις, Frisk IF 52, 282ff., Risch IF 59, 20); ἀκραής often interpreted as `blowing vehemently', but prob. orig.`blowing on\/from the heights'.Derivatives: ἄκρις, - ιος f. `hill-top, mountain peak' (Od.), always pl.; s. on ὄκρις. ἀκραῖος `dwelling on heights'.Origin: IE [Indo-European] [18] *h₂eḱ- `sharp, pointed; stone (?)'Etymology: The root *h₂eḱ- is widespread in IE, and ther are several r-derivatives: Skt. áśri- f. `corner, sharp side', catur-aśra- `quadrangular', Lat. ācer, - ris, -re (with unexplained length), W. PN Aχrotalus `with high forehead', OIr. ér `high', OLith. aštras, OCS ostrъ `sharp'. (For akro- in Illyrian s. Krahe Pannonia 1937, 310 n. 40, Karg WuS NF. 4, 183.) - Heth. ḫekur `rock(point)' is unrelated. - See further ἀκη, ἀκμή and ὄκρις. Connection with the root *h₂eḱ- was often unjustly assumed by modern scholarship, see e.g. ἀκαλήφη, ἀκόστη, ἄκορνα, ἀκριβής.Page in Frisk: 1,59-60Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό) > ἄκρος
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2 ὄκρις
Grammatical information: m.Meaning: `top, angle, corner' (Hp.).Compounds: As 1. member in ὀκρί-βας, - αντος m. prop. `walking on the top', `elevated place, stage, stand' (Pl.; cf. Schwyzer 526, Chantraine Form. 269 f.).Derivatives: ὀκρι-όεις `scharpedged, spiky (Hom., A., hell. poet.; on the formation Debrunner Άντίδωρον 28 f.); ὀκρίς f. `spiky' adjunct of φάραγξ (A. Pr. 1016); ὀκρι-άομαι (on the formation Schwyzer 732) in ὀκριόωντο `they incited themselves, they were fierce' (σ 33), ὠκριωμένος (Lyc. 545); ὀκρι-άζω `to be brusque, to be bitter' (S. Fr. 1075).Origin: IE [Indo-European] [21] *h₂oḱris `top, angle, corner'Etymology: With Lat. ocris m. `stony mountain' (with medi-ocris prop. `on half height'), Umbr. ukar, gen. ocrer `arx, mons', MIr. och(a)ir `edge, border' identical (Skt. áśri- f. `corner, sharp edge' with IE a- or o- \< *h₂e-\/o-), o-ablaut of aḱ- in ἄκρος etc., s. v.; cf. also ὀξύς. Details w. lit. in W.-Hofmann s. v., also WP. 1, 28, Pok. 21.Page in Frisk: 2,374Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό) > ὄκρις
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