κόμβος

The old comparisons with Lithuanian kabi̇̀nti (“to hang, hook on”), Proto-Slavic *skobà (“bracket”) and, within Greek, σκαμβός (skambós, “crooked”) are quite dubious. The form κομποθηλεία (kompothēleía) clearly shows that there was a variant with -π-, which points to Pre-Greek origin.

κόμβος • (kómbos) m (genitive κόμβου); second declension

1. roll, band, girth

• Greek: > κόμπος (kómpos) (inherited), → κόμβος (kómvos) (learned)

• “κόμβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κόμβος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Learned borrowing from Koine Greek κόμβος (kómbos) with semantic loan from French nœud for 'hub' and 'node' and from English knot in the nautical sense.^[1] Doublet of κόμπος (kómpos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoɱ.vos/
• Hyphenation: κόμ‧βος

κόμβος • (kómvos) m (plural κόμβοι)

1. (traffic) interchange, hub, circus
2. (nautical) knot (speed of one nautical mile per hour)
3. node

• Not to be confused with looping of string: κόμπος m (kómpos, “knot”).