κοῖλος
Word
Validation
No
Word-form
κόλποι
Word-lemma
Etymon-lemma
Transliteration (Word)
kolpos
English translation (word)
bosom, lap, fold, bay
Transliteration (Etymon)
koilos
English translation (etymon)
hollow
Century
5 AD
Source
idem
Ref.
Etymologicum, kappa, p. 80
Ed.
F. Sturz, Orionis Thebani etymologicon, Leipzig, Weigel, 1820
Quotation
Κόλποι. παρὰ τὴν κοιλότητα εἴρηνται.
Translation (En)
Kolpoi "folds". Thus called from their being hollow (koilotēta)
Parallels
Choeroboscus, Epimerismi in Psalmos, p. 140 (Κόλπος. παρὰ τὸ κοῖλον, ὃ σημαίνει τὸ βαθύ); Etym. Gudianum, kappa, p. 334 (Κόλπος, παρὰ τὸ κοῖλον, ὃ σημαίνει τὸ βαθὺ, κοῖλπος, καὶ ἀφαιρέσει τοῦ ι κόλπος· ἔστι δὲ κλῶ κλάσω, ἐξ αὐτοῦ γίνεται κλὸς, καὶ κατ’ ἀναδιπλασιασμὸν κόκλος, καὶ καθ’ ὑπέρθεσιν τοῦ λ, καὶ τροπῇ τοῦ κ εἰς π, κόλπος); Eustathius, Comm. Il., vol.4, p. 438 (κόλπον δὲ τὴν περὶ τὸ ἧπαρ ἔφη τοῦ ἱματίου πᾶσαν κοιλότητα [implicit]); Etym. Magnum, Kallierges, p. 526 (Κόλπος: Παρὰ τὸ κοῖλον, ὃ σημαίνει τὸ βαθὺ, κοῖλπος· καὶ ἀφαιρέσει τοῦ ι, κόλπος. Ἢ παρὰ τὸ ἕπω, τὸ ἀκολουθῶ. Ἕπεται γὰρ τῷ κοίλῳ καὶ περιφερεῖ βάθει)
Modern etymology
Cognate with ONorse half, OEng. hwealf "vault", from *kwelp- "curve" (Beekes, EDG)
Persistence in Modern Greek
MG still has κόλπος "gulf, bay", or "(anatomical) cavity" , as a learned word
Entry By
Le Feuvre
Comment
Derivational descriptive etymology. From the formal point of view, it requires a syncope in the intermediate form *koilpos (explicit in other sources). The etymon refers to a characteristic feature of the lemma.