- κῶλον
- κῶλονGrammatical information: n.Meaning: `member of an animal or a man, esp. leg' (IA.), also metaph., e.g. of a part of a periode (Rhet.), often plur., a. o. = `corpse' (LXX, NT).Compounds: Several compp., e.g. ἰσό-κωλος `with equal members' (Arist.), ἀκρο-κώλια `extremities', ὑπο-κώλια `thigh of an animal'Derivatives: Diminut. κωλάριον (Ael.), κωλύφιον (Phryn., Plaut.; cf. Lat. cōlyphium); κωλέα, -ῆ (Att.), κωλήν, -ῆνος f. (IA.), κωλεός f. (Epich., Hp.) `bones of the hip with its flesh, ham' (Solmsen Wortforsch. 124); κώληψ, -ηπος f. `hollow of the knee' (Ψ 726, Nic.); prop. ompound with ἅπτω? (Bechtel Lex. s.v. with Wackernagel), with suffixchange κώληξ `id.' (sch.) [this shows that it does prob. not contain a part of ἄπτω]; κωλώτης m. `lizard' (Hp., Arist., Babr.; Redard Les noms grecs en -της 8; because he can break off his tail, which will grow on(?); cf. Lat. lacerta to lacertus (see W.-Hofmann s. v.); also Lidén KZ 40, 260 f. on Skt. pallī `small house-lizard' (to pad-'foot'; diff. Mayrhofer KEWA s. v.) and Holthausen KZ 71, 60 (Westfal. hacke-molle `salamander' to hacke `pricks'). Denomin. κωλίζομαι `be disjointed in κῶλα' (late).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]Etymology: No cognate. Related words are perhaps found in Slavic and Baltic, but their relation to κῶλον cannot be specified: OCS, Russ. kolěno `knee, stem, lineage', Russ. člen `member, body-part', Lith. kelỹs `knee'; a fullgrade aorist with o-voc. is suspected by Specht KZ 55, 19 in κόλσασθαι ἱκετεῦσαι H. (but is this cognate?) - Details in WP. 2, 597 ff., Pok. 928. Vasmer and Fraenkel Wb. s. vv. - Cf. also σκέλος. - Unclear. One notes that Pre-Greek has a suffix -ηξ (νάρθηξ, κύμηξ).Page in Frisk: 2,60-61
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.