- σκαιός 1
- σκαιός 1.Grammatical information: adj.Meaning: `left, western' (rarely [esp. ep. poet.] Il.), `unfavourable, lefthanded, inapt' (IA.; Chantraine Μνήμης χάριν 1, 61 f.).Derivatives: σκαι-ουργέω `to do wrong' (Ar.), σκαιό-της f. `improper behaviour, inapt' (IA.), -σύνα f. `id.' (S. in lyr.; Wyss -σύνη 40).Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [not in Pok], XX [unknown]Etymology: Old word, identical with Lat. scaevus `link', σκαιότης = scaevitās (independently of each other built; diff. Porzig Satzinhalte 268). As the rhyming word λαιός (s. v. w. lit.) also σκαιός was replaced by the innovations ἀριστερός and εὑώνυμος (s. vv. w. lit.) . Combinations to be rejected in W.-Hofmann s. scaevus (w. lit.); older lit. also in Bq.Page in Frisk: 2,714
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.