AD AJP 102 (1981) 148
When I explained cauda 'tail' as an old nominalized quasi-participle from cauere in the sense 'ward off it had not come to my attention that we have a perfect semantic parallel in Greek o63pr 'horse-, bulltail', which occurs in the compound pu(l)o-o6p3r 'fly whisk'. The noun here is a formation based on oop3so in the sense 'chase away'. Note that this noun must be formed on oopl3e and not on oCepopal'be ashamed, afraid, revere'. I leave it to students of the relevant realia to determine whether pu(l)o-o61pr was so-called directly from its function of 6raoo6qapric, or whether these objects were made from or likened to a o6prl. ERIC P. HAMP UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
American Journal of Philology
108 (1987) 694
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1987 by The Johns Hopkins University Press