ἐγχέω
Word
Validation
No
Word-form
ἔγχος
Word-lemma
Etymon-lemma
Transliteration (Word)
enkhos
English translation (word)
spear
Transliteration (Etymon)
enkheō
English translation (etymon)
to pour in
Source
Idem
Ref.
Scholia in Batrachomyomachiam 164
Ed.
A. Ludwich, Die Homerische Batrachomachia des Karers Pigres: nebst Scholien und Paraphrase, Leipzig, 1896
Quotation
ἔγχος τὸ κοντάριον, ἀπὸ τῆς ἐν προθέσεως καὶ τοῦ χέω, τὸ ἐγχέον, δηλονότι τὸ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου αἷμα. Mosch
Translation (En)
Enkhos "spear": the javelin, from the prefix en "in" and kheō "to pour", the "pouring one", obviously <pouring> the human blood
Parallels
There is no parallel.
Modern etymology
Unknown (Beekes, EDG)
Persistence in Modern Greek
No
Entry By
Le Feuvre
Comment
This scholion by Moschopoulos is not attested before but is probably older. It is a purely paronymic etymology which does not require any formal manipulation: from the semantic point of view, one would rather expect that the spear "pours out" (ἐκχέω) the blood rather than "in" (ἐγχέω), but this point is not commented upon. The etymology is of the functional type, the function of the spear is to shed blood.