Περίς, πηρίς and περίναιος
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https://doi.org/10.3989/emerita.2016.18.1532Keywords:
Greek etymology, Greek vocabulary, medical vocabulary, semantic contamination, semantic development, word-formation, word-families, etymology in antiquity, ghost-wordsAbstract
This article discusses the etymology of Greek περίναιος (also περίναιον, περίνεος, περίνεον) ‘perineum’. The etymological dictionaries endorse Meister’s derivation from the medical term ἰνάω ‘evacuate, purge’, but this is unlikely to be correct. Instead, it appears to be a derivative of περίς ‘penis’, with possible contamination from πηρίς ‘scrotum’.
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