*τῶ
Word
Validation
No
Word-form
κώπη
Word-lemma
Etymon-lemma
Transliteration (Word)
kōpē
English translation (word)
handle; oar
Transliteration (Etymon)
tō
English translation (etymon)
to take
Century
11 AD
Source
idem
Ref.
Etym. Gudianum, kappa, p. 358
Ed.
F. Sturz, Etymologicum Graecae linguae Gudianum et alia grammaticorum scripta e codicibus manuscriptis nunc primum edita, Leipzig: Weigel, 1818 (repr. Hildesheim: Olms, 1973)
Quotation
Κωπίες, ἐκ τοῦ κώπη, ὃ σημαίνει τὴν λαβὴν, ὁ ἐκ τοῦ τῶ τὸ λαμβάνω τώπη, καὶ κατὰ τροπὴν τοῦ τ εἰς κ, κώπη· ἐκ τοῦ κόπτω κώπη ἀποβολῇ τοῦ τ.
Translation (En)
Kōpies, from kōpē, which means "handle", which comes from tô "to take", *tōpē, and by change of /t/ to /k/, kōpē. From koptō, kōpē, by dropping the /t/
Parallels
There is no parallel
Modern etymology
Derivative of the root *keh2p- "to grasp" (Lat. capio), found in Greek in κάπτω "to swallow" (Beekes, EDG)
Persistence in Modern Greek
The form "κουπί" has replaced "κώπη" in Modern Greek to denote "oar". However, the prefix "κωπη-" survives in the MG words "κωπηλασία" ("rowing"), "κωπηλάτης" ("rower") etc. (Triandafyllidis, Dictionary of MG)
Entry By
Le Feuvre
Comment
Derivational etymology. The etymon is a monosyllabic verb *τῶ, a ghost-form deduced from the interjection τῆ "there!" in Homer. This form was analyzed as an imperative of a verb *τῶ, which was then used to provide the etymology of various words