ῥάχις
Word
Validation
No
Word-form
τραχύς
Word-lemma
Etymon-lemma
Transliteration (Word)
trakhus
English translation (word)
rough
Transliteration (Etymon)
rhakhis
English translation (etymon)
spine
Century
9 AD
Source
Idem
Ref.
Epimerismi in Psalmos p. 167
Ed.
T. Gaisford, Georgii Choerobosci epimerismi in Psalmos, vol. 3, Oxford, 1842
Quotation
Ταραχώδους, ἡ εὐθεῖα ταραχώδης, παρὰ τὸ τράχος· τοῦτο παρὰ τὸ τραχύς· τοῦτο παρὰ τὸ ῥάχις· τραχεῖα γὰρ καὶ ὀστώδης ἡ ῥάχις.
Translation (En)
Tarakhōdous "tumultuous", the nominative is tarakhōdēs, from *trakhos, the latter from trakhus "rough", the latter from rhakhis "spine", because the spine is rough and bony
Parallels
Etym. Gudianum, tau, p. 522 (Ταραχώδους, ἡ εὐθεῖα ταραχώδης· ἢ παρὰ τὸ τάραχος, τοῦτο παρὰ τὸ τραχὺς, ῥαχία καὶ τραχία· καὶ γὰρ ὀστωδὴς ἡ ῥάχις); ibid., tau, p. 534 (Τραχὺς, ἀπὸ μεταφορᾶς τῆς ῥάχεος, ὀστώδης ἐστί); Etym. Magnum, Kallierges, p. 764 (Τραχύς: Σημαίνει τὸν σκληρόν· ἀπὸ μεταφορᾶς τῆς ῥάχεως· αὕτη γὰρ ὀστώδης ἐστίν. Ἢ παρὰ τὸ τάραχος, ταραχὺς, καὶ τραχύς· ὁ γὰρ τραχὺς τάραχον ποιεῖ)
Modern etymology
Within Greek, probably belongs with θράσσω "to trouble, to disturb" and the group of ταράσσω "to trouble", ταραχή (Beekes, EDG)
Persistence in Modern Greek
MG still has τραχύς "rough"
Entry By
Le Feuvre
Comment
Derivational etymology relying on one characteristic feature of the spine. This is a metaphorical definition of the spine. Formally, it implies the addition of one consonant at the beginning of the word. The etymology is reversible (see ῥάχις / τραχύς)