- προικός
- προίξ, προικόςGrammatical information: f.Meaning: `gift, present' (ν 15, ρ 413 [gen.]; cf. below), `dowry' (Att. [Sommer Nominalkomp. 94], also late pap. as archaising expression of the juridical language [Chantraine Mél. Maspero 2, 222 f.]); acc. προῖκα as adv. `gratuitous, for free' (Att.; thus prob. the gen. προικός ν 15).Compounds: ἄ-προικος `without dowry' (Att.; Sommer l.c.).Derivatives: Dimin. προικ-ίδιον n. (Plu.); adj. -ίδιος `forming a gift' (Ph.), -ιμαῖος `id.' (pap. VIp), `gratuitous' (D. C.), -ιος `gratuitous' (AP); verb -ίζω 'to provide with a dowry' (D. S., Ph. a.o.). -- Besides προ-ΐκτης m. `beggar' (ρ 352 u. 449), -ΐσσομαι `to ask, beg for a gift' (Archil. 130). Here also the fut. κατα-προΐξομαι in οὐ καταπροΐξεται `he shall not get away for free, remain unpunished' etc. (IA. com.).Origin: IE [Indo-European] [893] *seiHk- `stretch forth the hand'Etymology: Archaic word that died away soon, in late lit. partly revivified. -- Formation like ἄμ-πυξ, ἄν-τυξ, πρόσ-φυξ a.o., so prop. πρό-ϊξ (πρόϊκα with dieresis Ion. after EM 495, 33), from a verb with prefix, which is also the basis of προΐκ-της; the yot-present προ-ΐσσομαι can be either primary or a denominative of προίξ. -- Prop. *stretching forth (of the hand), presentation", to Lith. síekiu, síekti a.o. `stretch forth (the hand), reach'; προΐκ-της prop. `who stretches forth the hand'; cf. προτείνω χεῖρα καὶ προΐσσομαι (Archil. 130). -- Further s. ἵκω; diff. Jacobsohn Gnomon 2, 385 (προίξ prop. *"what is wanted, implored"; cf. on ἴκμενος).Page in Frisk: 2,598-599
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.