φιλεῖ δέ τοι, δαιμόνιε, τῷ κάμνοντι συσπεύδειν θεός → you know, my good fellow, when a man strives hard, a god tends to lend him aid
a primitive root; to chop off (literally or figuratively): cut (asunder, in pieces, in sunder, off), X utmost.