COMPOUND: Ἀμφιγυήεις
CATEGORIZATION: A [Adv+N/V+af+suf]
MEANING: ‘sharp, sharpened on both sides’ like the two-edged axe which is Hephaestus’ typical tool
ETYMOLOGY: ἀμφί ‘on both sides’ + noun/verbal root γυς (< ie *gū-s zero grade of *gēu-) ‘bend, curve’ + affix -η- + adj. suf. -εις (cf. Melazzo 1988)
OCCURRENCE: Il. I, 607; Od. VIII, 300, 349, 357
CASE/GENDER/NUMBER: nom. m. sg.
HEADEDNESS: exocentric
CLASSIFICATION: determinative – karmadhāraya
NOTES: epith. of Hephaestus