- ἀφάκη
- ἀφάκηGrammatical information: f.,Meaning: `Wicke, Vicia angustifolia' (Pherekr.).Other forms: ἄφακος (Schwyzer-Debrunner 30)Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: Dsc. and Galen think it comes from φακός `lentil'. The ἀ- is privative-pejorative acc. to Strömberg, Wortstudien 46f. (like Unkraut, but see Seiler, Studia Linguistica, 1952, 90f.). Frisk (Subst. priv. 20) proposed haplology from *ἀπο-φάκη (cf. ἀπό-λινον, ἀπό-μελι etc.). Chantr. notes: "L'emploi d'un thème en -η pour un thème en -ος attendu ne constitue pas une difficulté décisive et les hypothèses compliquées de Strömberg ne sont pas indispensable." This makes Fur. 373 more probable, who takes the ἀ- as a prothetic vowel and considers the word as a substr. word; note -ος : -η). Thus also Pisani, Paideia 11 (1956) 296.Page in Frisk: 1,194
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