- θύσθλα
- θύσθλαGrammatical information: n. pl.Meaning: `the sacred implements of Bacchic orgies' (Ζ 134), sec. `sacrifice' (Lyc.; through influence of 2. θύω).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: From θύσ-θλα with θλο-suffix (Chantraine Formation 375) to 1. θῦω, s.v. Not with G. Hoffmann in Hermann Silbenbildung 80 n. 1, Pisani Stud. itfilclass. 11 (1934) 225f., Benveniste Origines 203 to θύρσος. - The derivation does not seem adequate to me: it would give a much more general meaning, than the very specific one it has. It will be a loan = non-IE word, either Anatolian or Pre-Greek.Page in Frisk: 1,697
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.