λῡπη

λῡ́πη

Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `pain, grief' (IA.);

Compounds: as 1. member in λυπο-τόκος `causing grief' (Halicar.); παρά-λυπρος (Str.), λυπρόγεως, -χωρος.

Derivatives: λυπηρός `painfull, distressing' (IA.); besides λυπρός `id.' (trag.), often of the earth, oppos. εὑρεῖα (ν 243), πεδιάς (Hdt. 9, 122), also ὀρεινή (Arist. HA 556 a.4), nearly `unfruitful, frugal'; βιος (Str., Ph., App.); λυπρότης `frugality', of the soil (Str.). Denomin. verb λυπέω, -έομαι (after ἀλγέω; Debrunner Wortbildung $ 194) `cause sorrow, pain, distress' (Hes., Sapph., IA.) with λύπ-ημα `sorrow' (Antipho Soph.), -ητικός `be sorrowful' (Arist., Plu.).

Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [690] *leup- `peel; break'

Etymology: Unknown. As λευγαλέος (s. v.) a. rel. is connected with Skt. rujáti `break', λύπη could belong as verbal noun of synonymous lu-m-páti, lupyáte `break, tear (apart)', if lup- were not rather dialectic for rup- in Skt. rúpyati, Lat. ru-m-p-ō . The other words going back on IE *lup- rather mean `peel off' v. s.., e.g. Lith. lùpti `peel, fleece, flay', Russ. lupítь `peel', Germ. e.g. OHG louft, loft `bark' (also IE *lubh- possible); WP. 2, 417f., Pok. 690f., W.-Hofmann s. rumpō, Fraenkel s. lùpti, Vasmer s. lupítь. - In semantically a little separate λυπρός an old primary deriv. independent of λύπη may have been preserved.

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