- κνήμη
- κνήμηGrammatical information: f.Meaning: `part between knee and ankle, leg, shank' (Il.), `tibia' (Gal., Ruf.), metaph. `stem between two joints' (Thphr.; Strömberg Theophrastea 48), `spoke of a wheel' (Hom. etc. in compp., Poll., Eust.).Other forms: Dor. κνά̄μᾱCompounds: As 2. member e. g. in ὀκτά-κνημος `with eight spokes' (Il.), παχύ-κνημος `with thick shanks' (Ar.). Substantivized hypostasis: ἀντικνήμ-ιον n. `what is over against the shank', i. e. `tibia' (IA.).Derivatives: κνημίς, -ῖδος f. (Il.), Aeol. κνᾶμις, pl. κνάμῐδες (Alc.), `greave' (Trümpy Fachausdrücke 19f.) with κνημίδια pl. (Att. inscr.; meaning uncertain); κνημία f. `spoke' (Lys.), pl. `τὰ τῆς ἁμάξης περιθέματα' (H.) etc. (s. Scheller Oxytonierung 53f.); κνημ-(ι)αῖος `belonging to the shank' (Hp., Gal.; on the formation Chantraine Formation 49).Origin: IE [Indo-European] [613] *k(o)nh₂m-ā `bone, tibia, shank'Etymology: On κνημός s. v. With κνά̄μᾱ agrees except for the stem OIr. cnāim `leg, bone' (i-st.); both can go back on IE. *knām-. Close is a Germ. word for `(back-)thigh-bone, back of the knee', OHG hamma, OE hamm, OWNo. hǫm. As -mm- can be assimilated from -nm-, for hamma an IE. basis *konǝm-ā is possible, which differs from κνάμα, cnāim only in ablaut; s. Schwyzer 361, Pok. 613f.Page in Frisk: 1,883
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.