ὄμπνη
Word
Validation
No
Word-form
ὀμφαλός
Word-lemma
Etymon-lemma
Transliteration (Word)
omphalos
English translation (word)
navel
Transliteration (Etymon)
ompnē
English translation (etymon)
food
Source
idem
Ref.
Scholia et glossae in Nicandri Alexipharmaca 7b
Ed.
U.C. Bussemaker, Scholia et paraphrases in Nicandrum et Oppianum in Scholia in Theocritum (ed. F. Dübner), Paris: Didot, 1849: 260-364
Quotation
<ὀμφαλὸς γὰρ ἀπὸ τῆς ὄμπνης εἴρηται, ἥ ἐστι τροφή, ἀφ’ οὗ καὶ ἡ G1BRvAld> <θηλάζουσα G1> <Δημήτηρ Ὄμπνια G1BRvAld>, <αἰτία οὖσα τοῦ ἀναπνεῖν
Translation (En)
For omphalos "navel" comes from ompnē, which means "food", from where Demeter Ompnia, who is cause of the feeding
Parallels
There is no parallel
Modern etymology
Old inherited name of the navel, cognate with Lat. umbilicus, Engl. navel, Germ. Nabel, OIrish imbliu (Beekes, EDG)
Persistence in Modern Greek
MG still has ομφαλός "navel" as the anatomical word or metaphorically in the meaning "center"
Entry By
Le Feuvre
Comment
Derivational etymology, derived from the older one etymologizing the word by ἀναπνἐω (see ὀμφαλός / ἀναπνέω). Instead of assuming that both ὀμφαλός and ὄμπνη are independently derived from the same etymon *ὀμπνέω, dialectal form of ἀναπνέω, the scholion to Nicander assumes the latter is directly the etymon of the former, implying a derivational chain *ὀμπνέω → ὄμπνη → ὀμφαλός