ἐπισκῠνιον

ἐπισκῠ́νιον

Grammatical information: n.

Meaning: `skin of the brows' (Il.), metaph. `proud, severity' (Plb. 25, 3, 6).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [951] *sku(H)- `cover'

Etymology: If the simplex σκύνια n. pl. `eyebrows' (Nic. Th. 177, 443, Poll. 2, 66) was not derived from ἐπισκύνιον, the word would come from *ἐπι-σκύνιος `upon the brows'. In any case we have to start from a nominal *σκυν-, which together with OHG scūr `protecting roof', Lat. ob-scūr-us *`covered', dark' for which an r-n-stem is supposed; with l-suffix, σκύ-λος n. `flayed skin of an animal', σκῦλα n. pl. `spolia'. Perhaps the root is seen in Skt. sku-nā-ti, sku-no-ti `cover'. - See W.-Hofmann s. obscūrus.

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