κῠπελλον

κῠ́πελλον

Grammatical information: n.

Meaning: `big-bellied drinking vessel, beaker, goblet' (Il.);

Other forms: Note κύφελλα `hollows of the ears' (Lyc.).

Dialectal forms: Myc. [ku]pera? [uncertain]

Compounds: Some compp., notably ἀμφι-κύπελλον n. adj. of δέπας (Hom.), litt. "with beakers at both sides (or round about)", i.e. `doublebeaker', i.e. `two beakers joined with the foot' (?); acc. to Aristarchus (EM 90, 43; cf. Ath.11,783b) `double-handled'; cf. Kretschmer Glotta 20, 248, Brommer Herm. 77, 358f., 366.

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]

Etymology: Acc. to a spokesman in Ath. 11, 483 a κύπελλον was known to both Cyprians and Cretans; cf. Bowra JournofHellStud. 54, 73. Without the prob. suffixal ελλο -, which could be a combination of λ- and ιο- suffixes (cf. Chantraine Formation 253, also Schwyzer 483), we can connect κύπη τρώγλη H. with agreements in Lat. cūpa `vat, ton', Skt. kū́pa- m. `pit, hole, source' etc., s. in W.-Hofmann s. 2. cūpa, further Mayrhofer s. kū́paḥ. - Cf. also κυφός. - Fur. 171 compares κυπη `ship, hut, hole' (H.), κύβος ..τρύβλιον. (H.), κύμβη `beaker', κύμβος `beaker'; also Fur. 284. The word was prob. Pre-Greek but it concerns a widespread `Wanderwort'. The `suffix' -ελλο- rather continues -al^y-.

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