- κώδεια
- κώδειαGrammatical information: f.Meaning: `head, bulb of garlic' (Ξ 499, Nic.), κώδεα, -υια, -ύᾱ, -ία (Delos, Att. inscr., Arist., Thphr.); also other plants and comparable objects.Derivatives: κώδυον `head of purse-tassels' (Thphr.; as κάρυον : καρύη).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: Unexplained. After Scheftelowitz BB 28, 148 to κῶος `hollow, prison'; against Kalén Quaest. gramm. graecae 24, where also extensively on the diff. forms (κώδυια oldest form). To Lith. kuõdas `crown of the head, bush of feathers' (by Prellwitz wrongly compared with κώδεια) s. Fraenkel Wb. s. kuodẽlis. - Fur. 195, 198 Pre-Greek because of the variants; he compares words for `cup', e.g. κώδων `closk' (s. v.), Etr. qutum. Cf. Beekes, FS Watkins (1998) 25f., Beekes, Pre-Greek, Suffixes sub -αι-\/-ε(ι)-.See also: Vgl. κώδων.Page in Frisk: 2,59
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.