Schindler Jochem. Zu den homerischen ῥοδοδάκτυλος-Komposita

O-o-pe-ro-si: Festschrift für Ernst Risch zum 75. Geburtstag. — Ed. by A. Etter. — Berlin; New York: de Gruyter, 1986. — P. 393–401.Schindler discusses the conspicuous absence in Greek and Vedic compounds of Stoff- und Zugehörigkeitsadjektiva (no *ῥοδοεντ-δακτυλος) and argues that possessive compounds of this type regularly employed substantive stems as the first member and had the original meaning "having X that is like Y",
ῥοδοδάκτυλος "having fingers that are like roses."