κάρα + ἄνω
Word
Validation
No
Word-form
κρανίον
Word-lemma
Transliteration (Word)
kranion
English translation (word)
skull
Transliteration (Etymon)
kara + anō
English translation (etymon)
head + upwards
Century
11 AD
Source
Idem
Ref.
Etymologica nominum 156-157
Ed.
R. Reitzenstein, M. Terentius Varro und Johannes Mauropus von Euchaita: eine Studie zur Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft, Leipzig: Teubner, 1901
Quotation
(κεφαλή) ἣν τὸ κρανίον ὡς κέλυφός τι σκέπει | ἄνω κάρας ὂν καὶ θέσιν πρώτην ἔχον.
Translation (En)
The head, which the skull (kranion) protects like a shell, being on the top of the head (anō karas) and having the first position
Parallels
There is no parallel.
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
Comment
Composiitonal descriptive etymology building on the usual derivational etymology κρανίον / κάρα, and assuming the [n] belongs to the adverb ἄνω, the assumed form being something like *καρ-αν-ίον, with subsequent syncope of the first [a].