- κύρβεις
- κύρβειςGrammatical information: f. a. m.Meaning: name of `turnable pillars or columns', in the form of a three-sided pyramide, on which in Athens the laws of Solon were inscribed, also used of other inscribed tables (Att., Arist.).Other forms: (-ιες), -εων pl., rarely sg. κύρβις.Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]Etymology: As technical expression suspected of being a loan. Mostly (Zupitza, Prellwitz etc., s. WP. 1, 472 f.) connected with καρπός `hand-root' (s. v.); apart from the diverging -β-, is an IE. sequence *kurp-, *kurb- (for *ku̯r̥p-, *ku̯r̥b-) hardly acceptable. - Here also Κύρβαντες (s. v.) seen the whirling dances (Fick BB 29, 239, Kretschmer Sprache 2, 68)? Discussion in Jeffery, Local Scrpts 53f. - Pre-Greek?Page in Frisk: 2,53
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