- πέλμα
- πέλμαGrammatical information: n.Meaning: `sole of the foot or shoe' (Hippon., Hp., LXX, hell.).Compounds: As 2. member in βαθύ-, δί-, μονό-πελμος (AP, Edict. Diocl.).Derivatives: From it κατα-πελματόομαι `to be soled' (LXX), πελματίζω `to sole' (pap. VIp), `to sleek the soles' (Anon. on EM 659, 43).Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [804] *pel- `hide'Etymology: Formation like δέρμα and other full-grade verbal nouns with μα-suffix, with a westgerm. word for `skin, pellicle' mainly formally identical: OS filmen, OFris. filmene, OS. æger-felma `pellicle of an egg'. Beside it, in suffix quite deviating, other words for `skin etc' like Lat. pellis (s. πελλο-φόρος `pellarius' Gloss.), Germ., e.g. OHG fel, -lles, all prob. with n-suffix as several ablauting Slav. and Balt. words, e.g. Russ. plená, Lith. plėnė̃. Different again e.g. Lith. plėvė̃ `fine thin skin'. From Greek one might also consider ἐρυσί-πελας n. `name of a skin-disease' (s. v.); so πέλμα: πέλας like δέρμα: δέρας? A corresponding primary verb is however inknown. -- Further, partly unselected and uncertain material w. lit. in WP. 2, 58f., Pok. 803f., W.-Hofmann s. pellis; morpholog. speculations in Specht Ursprung 141 a. 182. Cf. πέλτη, also ἐπίπλοον and σπολάς.Page in Frisk: 2,499-500
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.