πρότμησις
COMPOUND: πρότμησις, εως
CATEGORIZATION: N (P+V+Suf)
MEANING: ‘waist or loins’
ETIMOLOGY: πρό ‘before, forth, in front of’+ verbal root τμη- (τέμνω) ‘cut, wound, maim’ + n. ending -σις (cf. προτέμνω ‘cut off beforehand, cut off in front‘)
OCCURRENCE: Il. XI, 424;
CASE: acc. sg.
HEADEDNESS: endocentric, right-headed
CLASSIFICATION: determinative (karmadhāraya)
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