αὔω: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=1.<br />Grammatical information: v.<br />Meaning: [[cry]], [[call]] (Il.).<br />Other forms: The [[υ]] is everywhere long. Ipf. [[αὖε]] (disyll.; doubtful Leumann, Mus. Helv. 14, 1957, 50f), mostly aor. <b class="b3">ἀϋ̃σαι</b>, fut. [[ἀΰσω]]<br />Derivatives: [[ἀϋτή]] <b class="b2">(war)cry</b> (cf. Trümpy, Fachausrücke 153ff.), Corcyr. [[αϜυτα]], with [[ἀϋτέω]] (Il.), which can be denominative from [[ἀϋτή]] or deverbative from [[αὔω]] (Schwyzer 705f.).<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: The word may be onomatopoetic, but nothing more can be said. - Specht KZ 59, 121 mentions <b class="b3">ἄβα τροχὸς η βοή</b> H.<br />2.<br />Grammatical information: v.<br />Meaning: [[get a light]], [[light a fire]] (ε 490). On the meaning Borthwick, Class. Quart. 63 (1969) 296.<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[purautoro]], du. /[[puraustro]]/. <b class="b3">ἔ᾽ναυον· ἔνθες</b>, [[Κύπριοι]] H.<br />Compounds: <b class="b3">ἐν-αύω</b> [[kindle]] (Hdt.); - <b class="b3">ἐξ-αῦσαι ἐξελεῖν</b> (H., Pl. Com.) mit [[ἐξαυστήρ]] <b class="b2">fire-tong, κρεάγρα</b> (A.); - <b class="b3">κατ-αῦσαι καταντλῆσαι</b> (cod. [[καταυλῆσαι]]), [[καταδῦσαι]] H.; also <b class="b3">καθαῦσαι ἀφανίσαι</b> H.. - Further [[πυραύστης]] m. [[moth that gets singed in the candle]] (A.), [[πυραύστρα]] f. <b class="b2">pair of fire-tongs</b>, [[πύραυστρον]] n. <b class="b2">id.</b> (Herod., cod. [[πύραστρον]]), all from <b class="b3">πῦρ αὔειν</b>. - Also with analogical loss of [[σ]], <b class="b3">γοιν-αῦτις οἰνοχόη</b> H.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [90] <b class="b2">*h₂eus-</b> [[scoop]], [[take]].<br />Etymology: The connection with fire seems secondary. Then [[αὔω]] may be from <b class="b3">*αὔσω</b> or <b class="b3">*αὔσι̯ω</b>, to ONo. [[ausa]] and Lat. [[hauriō]] (with secondary h-); the form would have pilosis. S. Schulze, Kl. Schr. 191 - S. also [[ἀφύσσω]].<br />3. See also: [[ἰαύω]]