The corpus record

κανθύλη

kanthule

swelling, tumor

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What it meant

1. κανθύλη · kanthylē — Beekes

κανθύλη [f.] ‘swelling, tumor’, only in xavO0Aac τὰς ἀνοιδήσεις. Αἰσχύλος Σαλαμινίαις (Fr. 220) ‘swellings’ (H., at an alphabetically incorrect place). < PG(S,V)> eVAR Also κονθηλαί' ai ἀνοιδήσεις (H.). *ETYM The comparison with a Germanic word for ‘ulcer, pus’, e.g. OHG gund, Go. gunds 'γάγγραινα᾽, would require that κονθ- is original, or that κανθ- is secondary for *xa8- (which is highly unlikely). Strémberg 1944: … — [Beekes, s.v. κανθύλη, p. 683]

2. κανθύλη · kanthylē — Chantraine

κανθύλη : {. cenflure, tumeurs attesté dans deux gloses d’Hsch. κανθύλας * τὰς ἀνοιδήσεις. Αἰσχύλος Σαλαμινίαις (Hsch., pas à sa place alphabétique exacte) et κανθηλαί " αἱ ἀνοιδήσεις (Hsch.), v. fr. 801 Mette. Et.: Terme technique. Le rapprochement que l’on a fait avec v.h.a. gund, got. gunds « ulcère », etc., suppose soit que κονθ- est originel, soit que κανθ- est une réfection de καθ-. Autre hypothèse de R. … — [Chantraine, s.v. κανθύλη, p. 506]

3. κανθύλη · kanthylē — LSJ

swelling, tumour

swelling, tumour, A. Fr. 220.

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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