- σκύβαλον
- σκύβαλονGrammatical information: n.Meaning: `waste, offal, refuse, muck' (hell a. late).Other forms: Also *σκύβλον as in σκυβλίζω?Derivatives: σκυβαλ-ώδης `muck-like' (late), -ικός `dirty' (Timocr.?), -ίζω, also w. ἀνα-, ἀπο-, `to treat like, to regard as waste' (LXX, D. H. a.o.); to this -ισμός m. (Plb.), -ισμα n. (Ps.-Phoc.), -ισις f. (sch.); -εύομαι `id.' (sch.).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin] (V)Etymology: Not certainly explained. Hypothesis of Neumann Heth. u. luw. Sprachgut 90 f. a. 107 (w. criticism of earlier proposals): to Hitt. išḫuu̯a- `throw (away), shake (away)'. Older lit. also in Bq and WP. 2, 556. Cf. also Chantraine Form. 247. -- Furnée 148 compares κύπελλα τὰ της μάζης καὶ τῶν ἄρτων ἐπὶ τῆς τραπέζης καταλείμματα (Philet. ap. Ath. 11, 483a); if correct, the word would be Pre-Greek.Page in Frisk: 2,740
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.