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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Formation rhyming with θρίψ (thríps, “woodworm”) and ἴψ (íps, “kind of worm”). It has been compared with words for "pinching" in Baltic and Germanic, but these are rather European substrate words. The whole picture is that of a Pre-Greek word: very small animal, long ῑ, prothetic σ-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /knǐːps/ → /knips/ → /knips/
Noun
κνῑ́ψ • (knī́ps) m (genitive κνῑπός); third declension
- kind of insect that infests fig and oak trees and devours the gallfly
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Further reading
- “κνίψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κνίψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κνίψ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN