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|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[layer]] (of animals and soldiers), [[bed]], [[matrimonial bed]], metaph. [[marriage]] and [[tomb]], as nautical expression in plur. [[anchor-stones]] (Il.).<br />Compounds: As 1. member in [[εὐνοῦχος]] m. "protector of the bed", [[chamberlain]], [[eunuch]] (Ion.-Att.; on the meaning E. Maaß, RhM 74, 432ff.) with [[εὐνουχίζω]], <b class="b3">-ίας</b> a. o. As 2. member a. o. in <b class="b3">χαμαι-εύνης</b> (on the formation Schwyzer 451), f. <b class="b3">-ευνάς</b> [[with its layer on the bottom]], [[lying on the naked bottom]] (Hom.); also <b class="b3">χαμ-ευνάς</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Lyc.), as determinative [[layer on the bottom]] (Nil. Th. 23); in this meaning further <b class="b3">χαμ-εύνη</b>, <b class="b3">-α</b> (Trag.) with [[χαμεύνιον]] (Pl.), <b class="b3">-ευνίς</b> (Theoc.), <b class="b3">-ευνία</b> (Ph., Philostr.).<br />Derivatives: [[εὐναῖος]] [[belonging to the εὐνη]] (trag.), [[εὔνια]] pl. = [[εὐνή]] (App.), [[εὐνέτης]] [[layer-companion]], [[wife]] (E.), <b class="b3">-έτις</b> f. (Hp., A. R.), [[εὐνάτας]] <b class="b2">id.</b> (E. Med. 159, conj.), [[εὖνις]] f. (S., E.). Two denomin. [[εὐνάομαι]], [[εὐνηθῆναι]], <b class="b3">-άω</b> [[lay down]], [[go to bed]], [[sleep]] resp. [[bring to rest]] (Il.) with [[εὐνήματα]] pl. [[marriage]] (E. Ion 304; cf. Chantraine Formation 184ff.), [[εὐνήτωρ]], <b class="b3">-άτωρ</b>, <b class="b3">-ητήρ</b>, <b class="b3">-ατήρ</b> = [[εὐνέτης]] (trag.), f. [[εὐνήτειρα]], <b class="b3">-άτειρα</b>, <b class="b3">-ήτρια</b> (trag.), [[εὑνατήριον]] [[sleeping-room]] (A.). [[εὐνάζομαι]], [[εὐνασθῆναι]], [[εὐνάζω]] <b class="b2">id.</b> with <b class="b3">τὰ εὐνάσιμα</b> [[sleeping-places]] (X. Kyn. 8, 4; after [[ἱππάσιμος]] a. o., cf. Arbenz Die Adj. auf <b class="b3">-ιμος</b> 48), [[εὐναστήρ]] = [[εὐνέτης]] (Lyc.), <b class="b3">εὐνάστειρα λίθος</b> (Opp.), [[εὐναστήριον]] = [[εὐνατήριον]] (S., E.). Details of the tragedians in Fraenkel Nom. ag. 2, 17, Björck, Alpha impurum 139f.; also Chantraine REGr. 59-60, 227f.<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Unexplained. Von Strachan in Fick 2, 48, Lidén IF 19, 320f. compare OIr. <b class="b2">(h)uam</b> [[hole]] and Av. [[unā]] f. <b class="b2">hole, slit (in the earth)</b>; further s. Bq s. v., W.-Hofmann s. [[exuō]] and 1. [[venus]]. Also Arm. [[unim]] [[have]], [[own]] remains far (rather with Meillet MSL 23, 276 to Hitt. [[epmi]] [[take]], [[seize]], Lat. [[apīscor]] etc.).