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τάγηνον: τοῦτο Ἰωνικῶς τινες τήγανον λέγουσι καὶ Ἡρωδιανὸς ἀπὸ τοῦ τήκω τήκανον καὶ μεταθέσει τοῦ κ εἰς γ τήγανον καὶ καθ’ ὑπέρθεσιν τάγηνον
Translation (En)
Tagēnon "frying pan": some call it by its Ionic name tēganon, and Herodian says it is from tēkō "to melt", *tēkanon and through change of k into g, tēganon "trying pan", and through metathesis tagēnon
Parallels
Orion, Etymologicum, tau, p. 151 (Τήγανον. τήκω, τήκανον, καὶ μεταθέσει τοῦ κ εἰς γ, τήγανον); Epimerismi homerici Iliad 1, 572 (ἀπὸ τοῦ τήκω τήκανον καὶ τροπῇ τοῦ κ εἰς γ τήγανον); Choeroboscus, Epimerismi in Psalmos p. 154 (ὥσπερ ἀπὸ τοῦ τήκω γίνεται τήκανον καὶ τήγανον); Etym. Gudianum, tau, p. 528 (Τήγανον, τάκηνον καὶ τηγάνιον, παρὰ τὸ τήκω τήκανον καὶ τήγανον, κατὰ μετάθεσιν τοῦ κ εἰς γ); ibid., p. 537 (ὡς παρὰ τὸ τήκω τήκανον καὶ τήγανον); Eustathius, Comm. Od. 2, 199 (Ἰστέον δὲ ὅτι τοῦ τήκω ῥήματος πολλά τινα παράγοντες, ἐκεῖθεν γίνεται καὶ τὸ τήγανον, οἱονεὶ τήκανόν τι ὄν); Etym. Magnum, Kallierges p. 743 (source of Herodian's quotation); ibid., p. 756 (Παρὰ τὸ τήκω, τήκανον· καὶ μεταθέσει τοῦ κ εἰς γ); Scholia in Dionysii Thracis Artem grammaticam, Scholia Marciana p. 322 (τοῦτο Ἰώνων τινὲς λέγουσι τήγανον. Ἡρωδιανὸς ἀπὸ τοῦ τήκω <τήκανον καὶ μεταθέσει τοῦ κ εἰς γ> τήγανον καὶ καθ’ ὑπέρθεσιν τάγηνον); Ps.-Zonaras, Lexicon, tau, p. 1713 (Τάγηνον. τοῦτο οἱ Ἰώνων τινὲς τήγανον λέγουσι. ἀπὸ τοῦ τήκω, τήκανον, καὶ τήγανον, καὶ καθ’ ὑπέρθεσιν τάγηνον)
This etymology is alluded to in Philoponus, In libros de generation animalism commentaria, vol. 14, 3, p. 37 (τήκονται ὑπ’ αὐτῆς αἱ σάρκες, ὥσπερ ἡ πιμελὴ διὰ τηγάνου καὶ πυρός "the flesh melts under its action as fat melts because of the pan and of fire")
Comment
Functional etymology taking as its starting point a dialectal variant, the Ionic form of the word, which became the usual form in koine Greek. This etymology implies a phonetic manipulation for the Ionic form (the modification of voiceless [k] into a voiced [g]) and a further one between the Ionic form and the Attic one (a vocalic metathesis, which is correct)