ποιέω: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: v.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">to do, to make, to produce, to poetize, to act</b>, in midd. also <b class="b2">to choose, to deem, to appraise</b> (Il.).<br />Other forms: Aor. <b class="b3">ποιῆσαι</b>, fut. <b class="b3">ποιήσω</b>, perf. midd. <b class="b3">πεποίημαι</b> (all Il.), act. <b class="b3">πεποίηκα</b>, aor. pass. <b class="b3">ποιηθῆναι</b> (IA.), fut. <b class="b3">ποιηθήσομαι</b> (D.), <b class="b3">πεποιήσομαι</b> (Hp.).<br />Compounds: Often w. prefix in diff. senses, e.g. <b class="b3">ἀντι-</b>, <b class="b3">ἐκ-</b>, <b class="b3">ἐν-</b>, <b class="b3">περι-</b>, <b class="b3">προσ-</b>. As 2. member <b class="b3">-ποιός</b> in unlimited productive syntheta, e.g. <b class="b3">λογοποιός</b> m. [[historian]], [[fabulist]], [[newsmonger]] (IA.) with <b class="b3">λογοποι-έω</b>, <b class="b3">-ία</b>, <b class="b3">-ικός</b>, <b class="b3">-ημα</b>.<br />Derivatives: 1. <b class="b3">ποίημα</b> (<b class="b3">προσ-</b>, <b class="b3">περι-</b>) n. [[production]], [[work]], [[poem]] (IA.) with <b class="b3">-ημάτιον</b> (Plu.), <b class="b3">-ηματικός</b> [[poetic]] (Plu.); 2. <b class="b3">ποίησις</b> (<b class="b3">προσ-</b>, <b class="b3">περι-</b>, <b class="b3">ἐκ-</b> a.o.) f. [[creation]], [[production]], [[poetry]] (IA.); on the meaning of <b class="b3">ποί-ημα</b>, <b class="b3">-ησις</b> Ardizzoni Riv. fil. class. 90, 225 ff.. Chantraine Form. 287. 3. <b class="b3">ποιητός</b> (<b class="b3">προσ-</b>, <b class="b3">ἐκ-</b> etc.) [[made]], [[produced]] (Il.), also [[made artificially]], [[not naturally]] = [[adopted]] (Pl., Arist.); Ammann <b class="b3">Μνήμης χάριν</b> 1, 19 f. 4. <b class="b3">ποιητής</b> m. (IA.), f. <b class="b3">-ήτρια</b> (hell.), [[creator]], [[producer]], [[poet]], esp. of Homer, with <b class="b3">-ητικός</b> [[creating]], [[poetic]], <b class="b3">ἡ -ητική</b> (<b class="b3">τέχνη</b>) [[the art of poetry]] (Pl., Arist.), <b class="b3">-ητικεύομαι</b> <b class="b2">to speak poetically etc.</b> (Eust., sch.). 5. <b class="b3">ποιησείω</b> desid. [[to wish to do]] (Hdn.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably]<br />Etymology: Decisive for the morphological evaluation of <b class="b3">ποιέω</b> are some dialectic aorist-forms: Arg. <b class="b3">ποιϜέσανς</b>, <b class="b3">ἐποίϜεhε</b>, <b class="b3">ἐποιϜέθ</b>ε, Boeot. <b class="b3">ἐποίϜεσε</b>, to which pres. opt. El. [<b class="b3">πο]ιϜέοι</b> (beside repeated <b class="b3">ποιέοι</b>). Acc. to usual interpretation (lit. in Bq and WP. 1, 510) <b class="b3">ποιϜέω</b> is derived from a noun <b class="b3">*ποιϜός</b>, which would be found in <b class="b3">ἀρτο-ποιός</b> a.o. An independent noun <b class="b3">*ποιϜός</b> cannot however be deduced from the 2. member, as the relevant adjectives seems recent and may have been derived from the verbal expressions (<b class="b3">τοξοφόρ-ος</b> : <b class="b3">τόξον φέρειν</b>, <b class="b3">λογογράφ-ος</b> : <b class="b3">λόγον γράφειν</b> etc.). One might think that in the simplex we have a compound of <b class="b3">-ποιέω</b> that was made independent (Schwyzer 726 n. 7). -- The general meaning [[make]], [[create]] may have arisen from the most different concrete special meanings. Nothing forbids to connect a verbal noun <b class="b3">*ποι-Ϝός</b> with <b class="b2">u̯o-</b>suffix (Schwyzer 472) with a verb [[heap]], [[accumulate]], [[fit together]], which is preserved in Indo-Iran., e.g. Skt. <b class="b2">cinóti</b>, and also has representatives in Slav., e.g. OCS [[činъ]] <b class="b3">τάξις</b>' with [[činiti]] [[order]], [[form]]; IE <b class="b2">kʷei-</b> (WP. 1, 509f., Pok. 637f.). It is however obvious to combine, the <b class="b2">u̯-</b>element in <b class="b3">*ποιϜός</b> with the <b class="b2">u̯-</b>element in <b class="b2">cinóti</b> : so <b class="b3">ποιϜέω</b> from <b class="b2">*kʷoi̯-u̯-éi̯ō</b> beside <b class="b2">cinóti</b> from <b class="b2">*kʷi-n-éu̯-ti</b> approx. as Goth. [[straujan]] 'strew' from <b class="b2">*strou̯-éi̯ō</b> beside Skt. <b class="b2">str̥ṇóti</b> [[strew]] from <b class="b2">*str̥-n-éu̯-ti</b> (s. <b class="b3">στόρνυμι</b>) or Goth. <b class="b2">-walwjan</b> [[revolve]] beside Skt. <b class="b2">vr̥ṇóti</b> [[envelop]] and <b class="b3">εἰλύω</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (<b class="b2">*u̯ol-u-éi̯ō</b> : <b class="b2">*u̯l-n-éu̯-ti</b>). In such an analysis <b class="b3">ποιέω</b> would appear like Goth. [[straujan]], [[walwjan]] as an iterative deverbative and one would be liberated from the not quite reliable noun <b class="b3">*ποιϜός</b> . Of course the syntheta in <b class="b3">-ποιός</b> can then be connected with a primares verb (<b class="b3">δρυ-τόμ-ος</b> : <b class="b3">δόρυ τάμνειν</b>). -- On the meaning of <b class="b3">ποιέω</b> and other verba faciendi cf. Braun Stud. itfllcl. N. S. 15, 243 ff.; also Valesio Quaderni dell'Istituto di Glottologia (Bologna) 5 (1960) 97 ff. Cf. also the lit. on <b class="b3">δράω</b> and [[πράσσω]]. Older lit. in Bq.