κάρα

Word

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Word-form

κρανίον

Word-lemma

LSJ

Etymon-lemma

LSJ

Transliteration (Word)

kranion

English translation (word)

skull

Transliteration (Etymon)

kara

English translation (etymon)

head

Author

Etym. Magnum

Century

12 AD

Source

Idem

Ref.

Etym. Magnum, Kallierges, p. 534

Ed.

T. Gaisford, Etymologicum magnum, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1848 (repr. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 1967)

Quotation

Ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ κάρα, καράνιον καὶ κράνιον

Translation (En)

From kara "head", *karanion and kranion "skull"

Comment

Derivational etymology correctly deriving "skull" from "head", although the formal process of derivation is not correct

Parallels

Ps.-Zonaras, Lexicon, kappa, p. 1255 (Κρανίον. ἀπὸ τοῦ κάρα καρανεῖον καὶ κρανεῖον, καὶ κατ’ ἐκβολὴν τοῦ ε κρανίον)

Modern etymology

Derivative of κάρα "head", *kr̥h2s-n-io- (Beekes, EDG)

Persistence in Modern Greek

MG still has κρανίο "skull" in the anatomical vocabulary

Entry By

Le Feuvre
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