- θυεία
- θυείαGrammatical information: f.Meaning: `mortar' (Com.), also `oil-press' (pap.); θυεῖον `id.' (pap.);Other forms: (-είη Nic. Th. 91; late also itacistic -ία, -ίη)Dialectal forms: Myc. tuweta \/thuestās\/Derivatives: Diminut. θυ(ε)ίδιον (Ar.); with backformation θυΐς, -ίδος f. (Damokr. ap. Gal.)? - Beside it θυέστης m. `pestle' (Dionys. Trag.).Origin: IE [Indo-European] [261] *dʰuH- `fly about, dash'?Etymology: Formation like ἐγχείη (: ἔγχος) a. o.; so \< *θυεσ-ίᾱ as ία-deriv. from θύος `burnt sacrifice' (Solmsen Wortf. 250 n.); cf. the concrete words in -ία, esp. names of vases like ὑδρία, ἀντλία, in Scheller Oxytonierung 48ff. From the meaning `vase for pounding the incense' developed through generalization resp. specialization `mortar' and `oil-press' (the development of the meaning is rather strange). - θυεῖον like ἀγγεῖον. - The pestle, θυέσ-της (s. Chantraine Formation 312f.), was conceived quite personally. - Wrong Persson Stud. 204 n. 1 (s. Bq).Page in Frisk: 1,690
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.