κυέω
Word
Validation
No
Word-form
κύστις
Word-lemma
Etymon-lemma
Transliteration (Word)
kustis
English translation (word)
bladder
Transliteration (Etymon)
kueō
English translation (etymon)
to conceive, to be pregnant, to swell
Century
11 AD
Source
idem
Ref.
Etym. Gudianum, kappa, p. 356
Ed.
F.W. Sturz, Etymologicum Graecae linguae Gudianum et alia grammaticorum scripta e codicibus manuscriptis nunc primum edita, Leipzig: Weigel, 1818 (repr. Hildesheim: Olms, 1973): 229-584
Quotation
Κύστις, παρὰ τὸ κεύθειν ἐφήβιον ὑπογάστριον, καὶ διὰ τὸ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου φυλάττειν τὰ ὑγρά· ἢ παρὰ τὸ μόριον κύειν τὸ οὖρος· σημαίνει δὲ τὸ οὐροδόχον ἀγγεῖον
Translation (En)
Kustis "bladder": from "to conceal" (keuthein) the lower belly, and because it keeps the watery part of the human body. Or from the fact that the organ swells (kuein) with urine
Parallels
There is no parallel
Modern etymology
Unknown (Beekes, EDG)
Persistence in Modern Greek
MG still has κύστη as the name of the organ
Entry By
Le Feuvre
Comment
Derivational descriptive etymology, As the more common one by κεύθω, which is mentioned first, it may derive the lemma from the future form of the verb κύσω, which provides the /s/