κύμβαχος

According to Leumann, the divergent meanings should be explained from an original substantival, technical sense. The formation favors this as well: compare especially οὐρίαχος (ouríakhos, “end of a spear”) and στόμαχος (stómakhos, “throat, gullet; stomach”). The form κύμβη (kúmbē, “drinking cup”) has been taken as the basis, but this is unconvincing. Other have started from a nasalized form of κυβή (kubḗ, “head”): this form without prenasalization shows that the word is Pre-Greek.

κῠ́μβᾰχος • (kúmbakhos) m or f (neuter κῠ́μβᾰχον); second declension

1. falling headfirst

κῠ́μβᾰχος • (kúmbakhos) m (genitive κῠμβᾰ́χου); second declension

1. crown, crest of a helmet

• “κύμβαχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κύμβαχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κύμβαχος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κύμβαχος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κύμβαχος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• 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