κέλευθος
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Quotation
Σκέλη. ἢ διὰ τὴν σχίσιν· διέσχισται γὰρ ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων, ἢ παρὰ τὸ κέλευθον, δι’ ἧς βαδίζομεν, πλεονάσαντος τοῦ σ. […] ἢ παρὰ τὸ κατεσκληκέναι, καὶ σκληρότερον εἶναι τῶν ὕπερθεν. οὕτω Σωρανός
Translation (En)
Skelē "limbs": from the splitting (skhisis). Because they are separated from each other. Or from keleuthos "road", through which we walk, with adjunction of [s]. […] Or from the fact they are dried up (katesklēkenai), and drier than the upper parts <of the body>. Soranus
Parallels
Meletius, De natura hominis, p. 129 (τὸ δὲ σκέλος παρὰ τὴν σχέσιν ἐκλήθη· διέσχισται γὰρ ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων· ἢ παρὰ τὴν κέλευθον, ὅ ἐστιν ὁδὸς, δι’ ἧς βαδίζομεν· ἢ παρὰ τὸ ἐσκληκέναι καὶ σκληρότερον εἶναι τῶν ὕπερθεν μορίων); Choeroboscus, Epimerismi in Psalmos, p. 125 ([…] καὶ ἐν συγκοπῇ σκέλος· διὰ γὰρ τὴν ὁδὸν βαδίζομεν· ἢ παρὰ τὸ σχίζω· ἀπεσχισμένα γάρ εἰσι τὰ σκέλη ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων); Etym. Gudianum, sigma, p. 503 (Σκελίζω, τοῦτο παρὰ τὸ σκέλος, τοῦτο παρὰ τὸ κέλευθος, ὃ σημαίνει τὴν ὁδὸν, πλεονασμῷ τοῦ σ, σκέλευθος, καὶ ἐν συγκοπῇ σκέλος· δι’ αὐτοῦ γὰρ τὴν ὁδὸν τελειοῦμεν, ὅ ἐστι βαδίζομεν· ἢ παρὰ τὸ σχίζω σχέλος καὶ σκέλος· ἀπεσχισμένα γάρ εἰσιν ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων τὰ σκέλη, ἐξ οὗ καὶ κατασκελίζω); Etym. Magnum, Kallierges, p. 716 (Σκέλος: Ἢ παρὰ τὴν σχίσιν· διέσχισται γὰρ ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων· ἢ παρὰ τὴν κέλευθον, δι’ ἧς βαδίζομεν· ἢ παρὰ τὸ ἐσκληκέναι καὶ σκληρότερα εἶναι τῶν ὕπερθεν. Ἢ κέλευθος, πλεονασμῷ τοῦ σ, σκέλευθος, καὶ συγκοπῇ, σκέλος· δι’ αὐτῶν γὰρ τὴν ὁδὸν τελοῦμεν. Ἢ παρὰ τὸ σχίζω, σχέλος, καὶ σκέλος· ἀπεσχισμένα γάρ εἰσιν ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων. Ἐκ δὲ τοῦ σκέλος γίνεται σκελίζω)
Comment
Derivational etymology in which the limbs (that is, the legs) are etymologized as fit for the road. The full formulation should be "σκέλος παρὰ τὸ διὰ κέλευθον βαδίζειν (or any other motion verb), where the semantic relationship is between σκέλος and βαδίζω, while the formal relationship is established not with the verb itself but with an adjunct, διὰ κέλευθον. It implies two formal manipulations, syncope (loss of the diphthong [eu]) and adjunction of an [s].