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|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[throat]], [[gullet]] (Il.).<br />Compounds: As 1. member a. o. in <b class="b3">λαιμο-τόμος</b> <b class="b2">who cute the throat</b> (E.); on <b class="b3">λαίμαργος</b> below.<br />Derivatives: Denomin.: 1. <b class="b3">λαι-μάσσω</b>, <b class="b3">-ττω</b> <b class="b2">be voracious</b> (Ar., Herod.; Schwyzer 733) with <b class="b3">λαίμαστρον</b> <b class="b2">voracious animal, carouser</b>, as term of abuse (Herod.; cf. on <b class="b3">ζύγαστρον</b>); 2. <b class="b3">λαιμώσσω</b> [[id]]. (Nic. Al. 352 as v.l.); 3. <b class="b3">λαιμάω</b> [[id]]. (Hippon.); 4. <b class="b3">λαιμάζουσιν ἐσθίουσιν ἀμέτρως</b> H.; <b class="b3">λαιμίζω</b> <b class="b2">cut the throat, slaughter</b> (Lyc.). - Nouns: <b class="b3">λαιμά</b> n. pl. = <b class="b3">λαμυρά</b> [[voracious]], [[greedy]] (H.; Men. 106, codd. <b class="b3">λαῖμα</b>, <b class="b3">λῆμα</b>), prob. back formation to <b class="b3">λαιμάω</b>, <b class="b3">-άζω</b>, <b class="b3">-άσσω</b>; <b class="b3">λαιμώρη ἡ λαμυρίς</b> (Theognost. Kan. 9, Suid.); cf. esp. <b class="b3">πληθώρη</b> (on the acc. Wackernagel - Debrunner Phil. 95, 181 f.). - A comp. that became unclear is <b class="b3">λαίμαργος</b> [[voracious]], [[carouser]] (Arist., Thphr.) from <b class="b3">*λαιμό-μαργος</b> (cf. esp. <b class="b3">γαστρί-μαργος</b>), if not from <b class="b3">λαίμαργος</b>; s. Georgacas Glotta 36, 165.<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: With <b class="b3">λαιμός</b> one connects <b class="b3">λαῖτμα</b> (s.v.), for which I see no basis; further no usable connection. - Several proposals: to <b class="b3">λαμυρός</b> (s. v.), <b class="b3">λάμια</b>, <b class="b3">*λαμός</b> (WP. 2, 434 with Prellwitz); to <b class="b3">λαίειν</b>, <b class="b3">λαήμεναι φθέγγεσθαι</b> H. (Bq; against this WP. 2, 377); to <b class="b3">λαιός</b> (Huisman KZ 71, 104; cf. s. v.). Several hypotheses on the badly attested adj. <b class="b3">λαιμός</b> (s. <b class="b3">λαιμά</b> above) by WP. l.cc., among which Solmsen KZ 44, 171 to [[λαιδρός]] (s. v.).

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