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|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[temple]], [[house of god]], [[sanctuary]] (Dor., Thess., young Att., hell.).<br />Other forms: [[ναϜός]] (Lac.), [[ναῦος]] (Lesb.), [[νηός]] (Hom., Hdt.), [[νεώς]] (Att.).<br />Compounds: Compp., e.g. <b class="b3">ναο-κόρος</b> (Delph.), <b class="b3">να-κόρος</b> (Dor.), <b class="b3">νεω-(νεο-)κό-ρος</b> (IA., hell.) m. [[temple-warden]] with derivv. (s. [[κορέω]]); <b class="b3">να(ο</b>)-, <b class="b3">νεω-ποιός</b>, second. (Schwyzer 451) <b class="b3">-πο(ί)ας</b>, <b class="b3">-πο(ί)ης</b> name of an office in charge of the building of a temple, with <b class="b3">-ποιέω</b>, <b class="b3">-ποιία</b>, <b class="b3">-ποιεῖον</b>, <b class="b3">-ποϊκός</b> a.o. (inscr. since Va); <b class="b3">πρό-ναος</b> (A.), Att. <b class="b3">-νεως</b>, also <b class="b3">-νάϊος</b>, Ion. <b class="b3">-νήϊς</b> (<b class="b3">Ἀθηνᾶ Προναΐα</b>, <b class="b3">-νηΐα</b>), [[in front of the temple]], substant. <b class="b3">πρό-ναος</b>, Ion. <b class="b3">-νηος</b> m., <b class="b3">-ναον</b>, <b class="b3">-νάϊον</b>, <b class="b3">-νήϊον</b> n. [[front hall]] (details in Schwyzer-Debrunner 508 n. 1).<br />Derivatives: 1. Diminutiva: [[ναΐδιον]] (Plb., Str.), [[ναΐσκος]] m. (Str., J.) with <b class="b3">-ίσκιον</b>, <b class="b3">-ισκάριον</b> (Pap., Sch.). -- 2. Adj.: [[ναϊκός]] [[belonging to a temple]] (Dodona). -- 3. Denomin.: [[ναεύω]] [[take sanctuary in a temple]] (Gortyn); [[ναόω]] [[lead into a temple]] (Crete); cf. <b class="b3">ναύειν ἱκετεύειν</b>, <b class="b3">παρά τὸ ἐπὶ την ἑστίαν καταφεύγειν τοὺς ἱκέτας</b> H.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: As common basis of the different dialectforms (s. Schwyzer 224 w. n. 4, 282, Björck Alpha impurum 326 ff.) we get <b class="b3">*νασϜος</b>. Therefore the word is mostly analysed as <b class="b3">*νασ-Ϝο-ς</b> and as <b class="b2">habitation, house (of the god)</b> derived from <b class="b3">νάσ-σαι</b>, [[ναίω]] (s.v.), which is quite possibke; on the <b class="b3">Ϝο-</b> suffix Chantraine Form. 123 f., Schwyzer 472. The etymology however has often been doubted: by Hermann Silbenbildung 50, by Chantraine [[l.c.]] and Étrennes Benveniste 4 (perhaps Mediterranean word), by Lewy KZ 55, 31 f. (Semit. etym.; not convincing). Hrozný Die älteste Völkerwanderung und die protoind. Zivilisation (Praha 1939) 14f. compares Protoind. (Mohendjo-Daro) [[nasas]] [[great House]], [[palace]], [[magazine]]. Fur. 338 w. n. 13 adduces the variants [[ναιός]] (Clinias ap. sch. A.R. 2, 1085, H.) and [[νειός]] (inscr. Samos 4 c. B.C,).