- κύμβαχος
- κύμβαχοςGrammatical information: adj., subst.Meaning: 1. adj. `fall head-foremost' (E 586; after it Call., Lyc.); 2. subst. prob. `crown of a helmet' (O536).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: As the meanings cannot be united, Leumann Hom. Wörter 231 ff. tries to explain them from different interpretations and reshapings of a pre-homeric scene; like Bechtel Lex. he is inclined to consider the substantival, technical function as the primary one. The formation too speaks for this; cf. esp. οὑρίαχος `spear-end', στόμαχος prop. "mouth-end", `throat'. One takes as basis κύμβη `drinking cup' (s.v.)? Others (Hofmann Et. Wb., Kuiper Μνήμης χάριν 1, 213f.) start from a nasalized form of κύβη `head', κυβιστᾶν (s. v.). The nasal-less form κυβ- shows that the word is Pre-Greek.Page in Frisk: 2,48
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.