τύπος
Word
Validation
Yes
Word-form
κτύπος
Word-lemma
Etymon-lemma
Transliteration (Word)
ktupos
English translation (word)
bang, din, noise
Transliteration (Etymon)
tupos
English translation (etymon)
blow
Century
5 AD
Source
Idem
Ref.
Etymologicum, kappa, p. 85
Ed.
F.W. Sturz, Orionis Thebani etymologicon, Leipzig, 1820
Quotation
Κτύπος. πλεονασμῷ τοῦ κ, τύπος τις ὤν. τὰ γὰρ τυπτόμενα ψοφεῖ
Translation (En)
Ktupos ("din"), though adjunction of [k], a tupos ("blow, beat"), as it were. Because that which is "beaten" (tuptomena) produces a sound
Parallels
Photius, Bibliotheca, Codex 279, Bekker p. 530b (Ὥσπερ καὶ τὸ κτύπος γέγονε κατὰ πλεονασμὸν τοῦ κ· τύπος γάρ ἐστιν ὁ κτύπος, ῥηματικὸν ὄνομα παρὰ τὸ τύπω); Epimerismi homerici ordine alphabetico traditi, kappa 114 (κτύπος: παρὰ τὸ τύπτω τύπος καὶ πλεονασμῷ τοῦ κ κτύπος· τυπτόμενον γάρ τι ψοφεῖ); Etym. Gudianum, kappa p. 351 (idem); Etym. Magnum, Kallierges p. 542 (idem); Ps.-Zonaras, Lexicon, kappa, p. 1261 (idem)
Modern etymology
Unknown (Beekes, EDG)
Persistence in Modern Greek
The word survived in Medieval and Modern Greek as χτύπος designating 1. 'a strong hit'/noise' and 2. 'the rythmical noise of a functioning organ', e.g., the heart, a clock etc.
Entry By
Le Feuvre
Comment
This is a very simple etymology which is of the mimetic type: the sound is caused by the blow, so that the name of the latter must be the etymon of the name of the former. It implies one formal manipulation, prothesis of a consonant