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ἴνδουρος

indouros

mole

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What it meant

1. ἴνδουρος · indouros — Beekes

ἴνδουρος [m.] - ἀσπάλαξ ‘mole’ (H.). eETYM The similarity with Skt. undura- ‘rat’ is rather accidental; see Mayrhofer KEWA s.v. (not mentioned in Mayrhofer EW Aia 3: 34f.). For the ending, we may compare » σκίουρος ‘squirrel’, which must be a loan, perhaps from Pre-Greek. ivig [m., f.] ‘son, daughter’ (A, E. [lyr.], Lyc., Call. also Cypr. inscr.; cf. Leumann 1950: 274”). ἰξός 593 eVAR Accus, -ιν. *ETYM … — [Beekes, s.v. ἴνδουρος, p. 639]

2. ἰνδουρός · indouros — Chantraine

ἰνδουρός : ἀσπάλαξ (Hsch.). Ce nom de la taupe est sans étymologie. — [Chantraine, s.v. ἰνδουρός, p. 478]

3. ἴνδουρος · indouros — Frisk

ἴνδουρος: ἀσπάλαξ (“Maulwurf’) H. — Von H. Petersson Et. Miszellen 16f., Heteroklisie 9 mit aind. undura- "Ratte’ verglichen, wozu nach Jacobsohn Arier und Ugrofinnen 205 u.a. tscheremiss. umdör ‘Biber’. Wohl zufälliger Gleichklang, s. Mayrhofer Wb. s.v. — [Frisk, s.v. ἴνδουρος, p. 759]

4. ἴνδουρος · indouros — LSJ

mole

mole (ἀσπάλαξ), Hsch.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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