- ἀμαυρός
- ἀμαυρόςGrammatical information: adj.Meaning: `hardly seen, dim, faint' (Od.); on the meaning McKinley Ant. class. 26 (1957) 12-39, Neugebauer ib. 27, 1968, 373f.Other forms: Rarely μαῦρος or μαυρός (Hdn., Gal., H.), prob. from μαυρόομαι, -όω (Hes.).Derivatives: Verb ἀμαυρόομαι, rarely ἀμαυρόω `become resp. render invisible' (Simon.).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]Etymology: It is assumed that μαυρόομαι arose through loss of the initial vowel (see the material in Strömberg Wortstudien 44f.). It could also be a prothetic vowel vs. its absence, as a substr. phenomenon; substr. origin is prob. anyhow as the word has no etym. (Scythian LW [loanword] acc. to Puhvel, Studies Whatmough, 1957, 237: maurva-)Page in Frisk: 1,88
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