σεύω + ὅλος

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Word-form

σόλον

Transliteration (Word)

solos

English translation (word)

mass of iron, quoit

Transliteration (Etymon)

seuō + holos

English translation (etymon)

to put in quick motion + whole

Author

bT Scholion Iliad

Source

idem

Ref.

bT Schol. Il. 23.826c

Ed.

H. Erbse, Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem (scholia vetera), vols. 1-5, 7, Berlin: De Gruyter, 1969-1988

Quotation

σόλον: παρὰ τὸ ὅλον σεύεσθαι

Translation (En)

solon "disk", from the fact that it is wholly put in quick motion 

Comment

Compositional etymology, in which the verb σεύω only provides the initial consonant /s/.

Parallels

Orion, Etymologicum, sigma, p. 47 (Σόλος. ὁ δίσκος. παρὰ τὸ σῶ, τὸ ὁρμῶ καὶ κινῶ. ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ σῶ, ὁ μέλλων σώσω, καὶ ῥηματικὸν ὄνομα κατὰ συστολὴν τοῦ ω εἰς ο, σόλος. παρὰ τὸ ὅλον σεύεσθαι, ὡς στρογγύλον. οὕτω Φιλόξενος); Eustathius, Comm. Il., vol. 4, p. 844 (Γίνεται δὲ σόλος μὲν παρὰ τὸ σεύεσθαι ὅλος, τουτέστι περιδεδινῆσθαι, σφαιροειδὴς γὰρ ἦν); Eustathius, Comm. Od., vol. 1, p. 290 (Σημείωσαι δ’ ἐνταῦθα καὶ Τρύφωνος τὸ, δίσκος, λίθος τετρημένος. σόλος δὲ, χαλκοῦν ὅλον σφαιρωτόν [the etymology is not given in full, Eustathius only says ὅλον as opposed to τετρημένος for the δίσκος, which had a hole in the middle, but he clearly alludes here to this etymology which he believes to be correct])

Modern etymology

Unclear (Beekes, EDG)

Persistence in Modern Greek

No

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