κλόνις

κλόνις, -ιος

Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `haunch' (Antim. 65);

Derivatives: κλόνιον ἰσχίον, ῥάχις, ὀσφύς and κλονιστήρ παραμήριος μάχαιρα, παρίσχιον H. (cf. Lat. clūnāc(u)lum `cultrum sanguinarium ..., quia ad clunes dependet' Paul Fest. 50).

Origin: XX [etym. unknown]

Etymology: The wordt resembles an old IE. word for `buttock, hip': Skt. śróṇi-, Lat. clūnis, Celt., e. g. Welsh clun, OWNo. hlaun, Balt., e. g. Lith. šlaunìs, IE. *ḱlounis. As however κλόνις cannot be combined with this (attempts mentioned in Bq and rejected), the word may have been folketymologically adapted to κλόνος (sch. A. Pr. 499 ἀφ'οὗ καὶ κλόνις ὀνομάζεται διὰ τὸ ἀεικίνητον, scil. ὀσφύς) (Brugmann, e. g. MU 3, 20, Schulze Q. 105 A. 1, Schwyzer 38 n. 1; doubts in Pok. 608; also Specht Ursprung 162 with a morphologically improbable analysis). Diff., not better, Petersson IF 35, 269ff. (against it Kretschmer Glotta 9, 233), Holthausen IF 62, 157.

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