θρώσκω
Word
Validation
No
Word-form
θρίξ
Word-lemma
Etymon-lemma
Transliteration (Word)
thrix
English translation (word)
hair
Transliteration (Etymon)
thrōskō
English translation (etymon)
to leap, to spring
Century
11 AD
Source
Idem
Ref.
Etym. Gudianum, theta, p. 265
Ed.
F. Sturz, Etymologicum Graecae linguae Gudianum et alia grammaticorum scripta e codicibus manuscriptis nunc primum edita, Leipzig: Weigel, 1818
Quotation
Θρὶξ, ἡ τρίχα, οἱονεὶ θέριξ, ὅτι θερίζεται καὶ τέμνεται. ἢ ἀπὸ τοῦ θορεῖν ὅ ἐστι πηδᾷν
Translation (En)
Thrix "hair", as though it were *therix, because it is reaped (therizetai) and cut. Or from thoreîn, that is, pēdân "to leap"
Parallels
There is no parallel
Modern etymology
Isolated within Greek. Maybe cognate with Lith. drikà "thread, with a variation of the last consonant of the root comparable to cases like *steib(h)/p-, despite Beekes' skepticism
Persistence in Modern Greek
MG still has τρίχα (from the non-nominative stem of Ancient Greek τριχ-)
Entry By
Le Feuvre
Comment
Derivational etymology relying on the initial sequence θρ-. It may allude to the fact that long hair "leaps" when a human being or a horse is running, and to the Homeric epithet of the Dorians τριχάϊκες, which scholiasts explained as meaning "with streaming hair", relating it to ἀϊσσω "to leap"