- κύανος
- κύανοςGrammatical information: m.Meaning: `name of a dark-blue substance, enamel, lapis lazuli, blue copper carbonate' (Il.); also name of a bird (Arist., Ael.; s. Thompson Birds s. v.) and a plant, `blue cornflower' (Plin.);Dialectal forms: Myc. kuwano.Compounds: Often as 1. member, e.g. κυανό-πρῳρος `with dark-blue prow' (Hom., B.; -πρῴρειος metr. lengthening at verse-end, Risch 120), -χαίτης `with dark hair' (Hom.; Risch Sprachgesch. u. Wortbed. 389 ff.), -πεπλος `with dark cloth' (h. Cer., Hes.; Treu Von Homer zur Lyrik 244).Derivatives: κυάνεος (ῡ metr. length.) `made of κ.', usu. `dark-blue' (Il.; on the meaning Capelle RhM 101, 10 a. 35).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: As Anat. LW [loanword] identical with Hitt. kuu̯anna(n)- `copper(blue), ornamental stone' (Friedrich Wb. after Götze). Cf. Danka and Witczak. IES 25 (1997) from *ḱwm̥Hos.Page in Frisk: 2,37
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.