- ἦκα
- ἦκαGrammatical information: adv.Meaning: `slowly, still, a little' (Il.);Other forms: adj. compar. ἥττων, Ion. ἥσσων `smaller, weaker' (Il.), superl. ἤκιστος `slowest' (Ψ 531), adv. ἥκιστα `the least, not at all' (IA), ἥκιστος `weakest, schlimmster' (Ael.).Compounds: IE [896] *sēk- `slow, quiet'Derivatives: From ἦκα: ἤκαλος = ἀκαλός (Call.), ἠκαλέον γελόωσα πράως, οὑκ ἐσκυθρωπακυῖα; ἠκαῖον ἀσθενές H. - From ἥσσων, ἥττων: ἡσσάομαι, ἡττάομαι `be less, be weaker' (after νικάομαι) with the backformation ἧσσα, ἧττα f. `defeat' (trag., Th., IA.); Ion. (Hdt., Herod.) has ἑσσόομαι (from *ἕσσων, innovation after κρέσσων). With ἦκα (with ep. psilosis like ἤκιστος; cf. Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 187) cf. ὦκα and other adverbs in -ᾰ (Schwyzer 622). Cognate is acc. to Froehde BB 16, 192, Osthoff IF 5, 297 Lat. sēgnis `slow' \< *sēc-ni-s; on the n-suffix cf. πύκ-α : πυκ-νός and Benveniste Origines 89f. Details in Seiler Steigerungsformen 65ff.Origin: IE [Indo-European] [896] *seh₁k- (or *sēk-?) `slow'Etymology: Not to ἦκα belong (Bechtel Lex. 156) ἀκήν, ἀκαλά; against it Buttmann Lexilogus 1, 13f.Page in Frisk: 1,627
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