ἀοσσέω

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, a denominative formed from *ἀοσσος (*aossos), itself from Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-sokʷ-yo, from *sokʷyo-, from Proto-Indo-European *sokʷh₂ṓy, whence also Proto-Indo-Iranian *sákʰā. The loss of the laryngeal may have occurred due to the effects of Pinault's law.[1][2] The linguist Anthony Yates connects the thematicization of the Ancient Greek word to the thematicized terms in Latin socius and Proto-Germanic *sagjaz.[3] However, the linguist Donald Ringe argues that the Germanic and Greek forms cannot have been directly inherited from the same pre-form, as Greek and Germanic "share no common ancestor that Indo-Iranian does not also share."[4]

Pronunciation

 

Verb

ᾰ̓οσσέω • (ăosséō)

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    • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Epigrams 24.110-115:
      τῷ μὲν ἀοσσῆσαι λελιημένος, ὥς μοι ἔικτο, Ἰφικλέης μεγάθυμος ἐπʼ οὔδεϊ κάππεσʼ ὀλισθὼν πρὶν ἐλθεῖν, οὐδʼ ὀρθὸς ἀναστῆναι δύνατʼ αὖτις, ἀλλʼ ἀστεμφὲς ἔκειτο, γέρων ὡσείτʼ ἀμενηνός, ὅντε καὶ οὐκ ἐθέλοντα βιήσατο γῆρας ἀτερπὲς καππεσέειν, κεῖται δʼ ὅγʼ ἐπὶ χθονὸς ἔμπεδον αὐτοῦ
      tōî mèn aossêsai leliēménos, hṓs moi éikto, Iphikléēs megáthumos ep’ oúdeï káppes’ olisthṑn prìn eltheîn, oud’ orthòs anastênai dúnat’ aûtis, all’ astemphès ékeito, gérōn hōseít’ amenēnós, hónte kaì ouk ethélonta biḗsato gêras aterpès kappeséein, keîtai d’ hóg’ epì khthonòs émpedon autoû
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

Usage notes

The aorist infinitive form ἀοσσῆσαι (aossêsai) is attested.

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἀοσσέω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 112-113
  2. ^ Byrd, Andrew Miles (2015), The Indo-European Syllable (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics; 15), Leiden: Brill, page 25
  3. ^ Yates, Anthony (2018), “PIE *–oi-stems were not "amphikinetic": Decoupling stress mobility and *o-vocalism”, in Paper presented at the 30th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference[1], Los Angelos, California, page 2
  4. ^ Ringe, Donald (2006), From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎[2], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 110