πέδῑλον

πέδῑλον

Grammatical information: n., mostly pl. -α

Meaning: `sole under the foot, sandal', sec. of other footcover (Il.; also Hdt. and Plu., s. Ruijgh L'élém. ach. 151 f.).

Dialectal forms: Myc. pediro, Gallavotti Riv. fil. class. 89,174ff..

Compounds: Often as 2. member, e.g. χρυσο-πέδιλος `with golden sandals' (Od.).

Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [790] *ped- `foot'

Etymology: With ῑλο-suffix from the word for `foot' (in πέδον); s. πούς. On the formation Chantraine Form. 249; whether an intermediate ῑ-stem must be essumed (WP. 2,23, Specht Ursprung 147; cf. on πέζα), is uncertain. The form with geminata -λλ- (after Gramm. Aeol.) Schwyzer 439 n. 6 wants to explain from *πέδ-ι-Ϝλον prop. "footwrap"; apart from the facts this, is not aboslutely reliable, s. Hamm Grammatik, par. 26. Cf. on ὅμῑλος. - The suffix seems Pre-Greek; long vowel is in that case frequent. But the suffix is not known from elsewhere with this function.

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