*τῶ
Word
Validation
No
Word-form
κώπη
Word-lemma
Etymon-lemma
Transliteration (Word)
kōpē
English translation (word)
handle; oar
Transliteration (Etymon)
*tô
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