πτύσσω
Word
Validation
No
Word-form
πυγμή
Word-lemma
Etymon-lemma
Transliteration (Word)
pugmē
English translation (word)
fist, boxing
Transliteration (Etymon)
ptussō
English translation (etymon)
to fold
Century
9 AD
Source
idem
Ref.
Epimerismi homerici ordine alphabetico traditi, pi 60
Ed.
A. Dyck, Epimerismi Homerici: Pars altera. Lexicon αἱμωδεῖν. Berlin – New York, 1995
Quotation
(Πυγμαῖος)… ἢ ἐκ τοῦ πυγμή, ⸤ὅ ἐστιν⸥ εἶδος ⸤ἀγ⸥ῶνος, παρὰ τὸ πτύσσω, ὁ μέλλων πτύξω πτυγμή καὶ ἀποβολῇ τοῦ τ πυγμή
Translation (En)
Pugmaios "pygmy"… or from pugmē "boxing", which is a kind of fight, from ptussō "to fold", the future is ptuxō, *ptugmē and by loss of the [t], pugmē
Parallels
Etym. Gudianum, pi, p. 486 (Πυγμαῖος, […] ἢ ἐκ τοῦ πυγμὴ, ὅ ἐστιν εἶδος ἀγῶνος, παρὰ τὸ πτύσσω, πτύξω, πτυγμὴ καὶ ἀποβολῇ τοῦ τ πυγμή); Etym. Magnum, Kallierges, p. 695 (παρὰ τὸ πτῶ πτύσσω, πτυγμὴ καὶ πυγμή); Mauropus, Etymologica nominum 231 (πτύσσει δὲ πυγμὴ δακτύλους τοῖς πυγμάχοις)
Modern etymology
Derived from πύξ (q.v.)
Persistence in Modern Greek
Yes, as a learned word
Entry By
Le Feuvre
Comment
Derivational etymology, parallel to the etymology of πύξ (see πύξ / πτύσσω). It is consistent with Philoxenus' method: rather than deriving a noun (πυγμή) from another noun (πύξ), the grammarian independently derives the two nouns from the same verb, inflected in the future, by the same process assuming the loss of [t].