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The Suffix of (L)ΠYpaminoΣ, KpiΘAminoΣ

The Suffix of (L)ΠYpaminoΣ, KpiΘAminoΣ THE SUFFIX OF (L) Π YPAMINO Σ , KPI Θ AMINO Σ Schwyzer remarks 1) that the Cyrenean adjectives <11tUp(x¡J.LVOC; are formed "nach unbekannter Analogie (das Subst. <1uxoc¡iLvoC; genfgt nicht)". Clearly Schwyzer is right in refusing to regard oux(x;jt.?0(; "mulberry tree" as capable of causing the forms <11tUPOC(.l..LVOC;, ?6<x?w<; to be created beside 1tÚPLVOC;, xpi6cvoS. The source of these secondary forms in is easily found by examining the contexts in which they appear. xpt.0<x?.?o<; is in fact not attested at Cyrene; Schwyzer seems to have been guilty of a lapsus calami on this point. According to Liddle-Scott-Jones, it is only used once, by Polya.enus (floruit 2nd cent. A.D.) 2): xp18mylvmv &Xc6pmv. according to L.-S.-J. (s.v.) "poet. for x6pwoq as xpL6oc(.l..LVOC; for xpEOtvoq", is attested twice: once Hesiod (fragment II7, 1tUP(X(.l..LVOUC; once Polyaenus (loc. cit.: 1tUp(X(.l..LV V At Cyrene, <11tUP(x(.l..LV(x (nom. sing. or pl. ) is attested once in one of the accounts of the Demiourgi, 3) beside a7cupot (ibid. line 5). In his translation of the inscription, Oliverio 4) renders <11tUpOL as "grano", <11tUp<X(.l..LV(x as "farina di grano", nor does any other interpretation seem possible or desirable. anu- is clearly short for <11tUP(X(.l..LV(x &aeupa. It appears, then, that in Polyaenus and at Cyrene the forms in -ywoq are used of meal or flour, in Hesiod alone of the awn of the corn-ear. However, flour was not made only of wheat or barley, but also of beans and lupines. Thus there is mention of &Xc6pmv 1tUPLV V Y¡ £peyyivmv ... in Dioscurides 5) and 4),eupov xuci[Ltvov in Galen.6). I would suggest that (a)nupa?.evo5 and xpL6oc(.l..LVOC;, instead of xpi6cvoS are formed on the analogy of derivatives of stems ending in -tL-7), all these adjectives being applied to flour. It may be objected that (Cyrene) and 1tUP(X(.l..(vouc; (Hesiod) are attested several centuries before and but meal was undoubtedly made from beans etc. at a much earlier period, and there is therefore no reason for assuming that xva?.cvo5 etc. (i.e. &;keupa or are late formations. 1tUP(X(.l..LVOUC; in Hesiod suggests that these analogical forms began to be created quite early-here perhaps from metrical exigencies-although never firmly established. This seems an in- teresting example of the extension of a (new) suffix within a semantic field through false word-division. LONDON, Bedford College. KATHLEEN FORBES 1) Gr. Gr. I, 494. 2) Strat. 4, 3, 32. 3) SEG IX 13, 6 (4th cent. B.C.). 4) Documenti Antichi dell' Africa Italiana I, Cirenaica II (Ig33 ), 132-3. 5) De Med. II ioi; cf. ib. 3, 80, 3. 6) Ed. Kiihn 10, II7. 7) Cf. Chantraine, Formation des Noms en grec ancien, 201 ff., for this quite prolific suffix for denominative adjectives. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

The Suffix of (L)ΠYpaminoΣ, KpiΘAminoΣ

Forbes, Kathleen
Mnemosyne , Volume 11 (1): 157 – Jan 1, 1958
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THE SUFFIX OF (L) Π YPAMINO Σ , KPI Θ AMINO Σ Schwyzer remarks 1) that the Cyrenean adjectives <11tUp(x¡J.LVOC; are formed "nach unbekannter Analogie (das Subst. <1uxoc¡iLvoC; genfgt nicht)". Clearly Schwyzer is right in refusing to regard oux(x;jt.?0(; "mulberry tree" as capable of causing the forms <11tUPOC(.l..LVOC;, ?6<x?w<; to be created beside 1tÚPLVOC;, xpi6cvoS. The source of these secondary forms in is easily found by examining the contexts in which they appear. xpt.0<x?.?o<; is in fact not attested at Cyrene; Schwyzer seems to have been guilty of a lapsus calami on this point. According to Liddle-Scott-Jones, it is only used once, by Polya.enus (floruit 2nd cent. A.D.) 2): xp18mylvmv &Xc6pmv. according to L.-S.-J. (s.v.) "poet. for x6pwoq as xpL6oc(.l..LVOC; for xpEOtvoq", is attested twice: once Hesiod (fragment II7, 1tUP(X(.l..LVOUC; once Polyaenus (loc. cit.: 1tUp(X(.l..LV V At Cyrene, <11tUP(x(.l..LV(x (nom. sing. or pl. ) is attested once in one of the accounts of the Demiourgi, 3) beside a7cupot (ibid. line 5). In his translation of the inscription, Oliverio 4) renders <11tUpOL as "grano", <11tUp<X(.l..LV(x as "farina di grano", nor does any other interpretation seem possible or desirable. anu- is clearly short for <11tUP(X(.l..LV(x &aeupa. It appears, then, that in Polyaenus and at Cyrene the forms in -ywoq are used of meal or flour, in Hesiod alone of the awn of the corn-ear. However, flour was not made only of wheat or barley, but also of beans and lupines. Thus there is mention of &Xc6pmv 1tUPLV V Y¡ £peyyivmv ... in Dioscurides 5) and 4),eupov xuci[Ltvov in Galen.6). I would suggest that (a)nupa?.evo5 and xpL6oc(.l..LVOC;, instead of xpi6cvoS are formed on the analogy of derivatives of stems ending in -tL-7), all these adjectives being applied to flour. It may be objected that (Cyrene) and 1tUP(X(.l..(vouc; (Hesiod) are attested several centuries before and but meal was undoubtedly made from beans etc. at a much earlier period, and there is therefore no reason for assuming that xva?.cvo5 etc. (i.e. &;keupa or are late formations. 1tUP(X(.l..LVOUC; in Hesiod suggests that these analogical forms began to be created quite early-here perhaps from metrical exigencies-although never firmly established. This seems an in- teresting example of the extension of a (new) suffix within a semantic field through false word-division. LONDON, Bedford College. KATHLEEN FORBES 1) Gr. Gr. I, 494. 2) Strat. 4, 3, 32. 3) SEG IX 13, 6 (4th cent. B.C.). 4) Documenti Antichi dell' Africa Italiana I, Cirenaica II (Ig33 ), 132-3. 5) De Med. II ioi; cf. ib. 3, 80, 3. 6) Ed. Kiihn 10, II7. 7) Cf. Chantraine, Formation des Noms en grec ancien, 201 ff., for this quite prolific suffix for denominative adjectives.

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