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τένᾰγ-ος

tenagos

shallow water, shallow spot, shoal

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1. τέναγος · tenagos — Beekes

τέναγος [n.] ‘shallow water, shallow spot, shoal’ (Pi. Hdt. Th. Arist.). DER τεναγ-ώδης ‘full of shoals, shallow’ (Hell.), -ἴτις [f.] ‘id? (AP), @w (Str, Plu.), -όομαι (Xenocr. apud Orib.) [v.] ‘to form a t., be shallow’. *ETYM Formation like the opposite πέλαγος, and perhaps influenced by it. Bezzenberger BB 18 (1892): 267 compared Latv. tigas < *tyh.g- ‘deep spot between two shallow … — [Beekes, s.v. τέναγος, p. 1517]

2. τέναγος · tenagos — Chantraine

τέναγος : n., souvent au pl. «eaux peu profondes, lagune », ete, dit pour la mer et pour des rivières (Pi., Hdt., Th., Arist., pap.). D'où τεναγώδης «avec des bas fonds » (hellén. et tardif), -ἴτις f. id. (AP), cf. Redard, Noms en -τῆς 115 ; verbes dénominatifs : τεναγίζω « former des bas-fonds » (Str., Plu.), τεναγόομαι id. (Xénocr. ap. Orib.). — [Chantraine, s.v. τέναγος, p. 1124]

3. τέναγος · tenagos — Frisk

τέναγος τι. ‘seichtes Wasser, seichte Stelle, Untiefe’ (Pi., Hdt., Th., Arist. u.a.). Davon revay-&öng “voll Untiefen, seicht’ (hell. u. sp.), -ἴτις f. "ds. (AP; Redard 115), -ἔξω (Str., Plu.), -όομαι (Xenokr. ap. Orib.) ‘ein r. bilden, seicht sein’. — Bildung wie das Oppositum πέλαγος, viell. formal davon beeinflußt. Nach Bezzenberger BB 18, 267 u.a. (s. WP. 1, 724) zu lett. tigas (*tingas) “tiefe Stelle zwischen … — [Frisk, s.v. τέναγος, p. 1848]

4. τένᾰγ-ος · tenag-os — LSJ

shoal-water, shallows, lagoon

shoal-water, shallows, lagoon, whether in the sea or in rivers, Pi. N. 3.24; ἕλεά τε καὶ τ. Hdt. 1.202, cf. 7.176, 8.129, Th. 3.51, PPetr. 2p.17 (iii B.C.), etc.; φύεται [τὰ ὄστρεα] . . ἐν τοῖς τενάγεσι Arist. HA 548a1.

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