- πρέμνον
- πρέμνονGrammatical information: n.Meaning: `tree-stump, trunk, stub', also `bole', metaph. of a column etc. (h. Merc.; on the meaning Strömberg Theophrastea 98 f.).Other forms: also -ος.Compounds: As 2. member a.o. in αὑτό-πρεμνος `together with the trunk, root and branch, entirely' (A., S.).Derivatives: πρέμνια τὰ πάχος ἔχοντα ξύλα H.; πρεμν-ώδης `stump-like' (Thphr.), -ίζω `to pull up, to remove the stump' (Test. ap. D. a.o.; ἐκ- πρέμνον D. a.o.), -ιάσαι ἐκριζῶσαι H.Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]Etymology: Unexplained. Uncertain or improbable hypotheses: to Celt., e.g. OIr. crann `tree' (Stokes in Brugmann Grundr. I 375 f.; against this WP. 1, 524); to Lat. quernus `oak(en)' (Pisani Ist. Lomb. 77, 561 ff.); with πρέπω (s.v.) to IE *per- `beat' (Grošelj Živa Ant. 6, 237f.). Still diff. Hofmann Et. Wb. s.v. (with Specht Ursprung 55). Cf. also πρυμνός. -- Furnée 65 assumes that it is a variant of πρυμνός, and considers the word as Pre-Greek.Page in Frisk: 2,591
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.