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|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: [[custom]], [[usage]] (Ion.-Att.).<br />Derivatives: Old only <b class="b3">ἐθάς</b> m. f. [[usual]] (Hp., Th.); late <b class="b3">ἔθιμος</b> [[usual]] (Amorgos Ia, D. S. etc.; after <b class="b3">νόμιμος</b>, Arbenz Die Adj. auf <b class="b3">-ιμος</b> 99), <b class="b3">ἐθικός</b> [[usual]] (Plu.), <b class="b3">ἐθήμων</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Musae.) with <b class="b3">ἐθημο-λογέω</b> <b class="b2">collect as usual</b> (AP), <b class="b3">ἐθημοσύνη</b> (H., Suid.). Denomin. verb <b class="b3">ἐθίζω</b> (not with Schwyzer 716 from <b class="b3">*ἔθω</b>, s. <b class="b3">ἔθων</b> and <b class="b3">εἴωθα</b>) with <b class="b3">ἔθισμα</b> [[usage]] (Pl.), <b class="b3">ἐθισμός</b> [[custom]] (Arist.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [883] <b class="b2">*su̯edʰ-</b> <b class="b2">own character</b>?<br />Etymology: If one assumes <b class="b3">*Ϝέθος</b> from IE <b class="b2">*su̯édhos</b> (with dissimilation) one can compare Skt. <b class="b2">svadhā,́</b> <b class="b2">use, own character</b>. Further there is the Germ. word for [[custom]], Goth. [[sidus]] m. etc., which will go back on IE <b class="b2">*sedhu-</b>. Also Lat. [[sodālis]] [[comrade]] as <b class="b2">*su̯edhālis</b> (<b class="b2">su̯odh-</b>) has been compared. The basis of <b class="b2">su̯edh-</b>, <b class="b2">sedh-</b> can be the reflexive <b class="b2">*s(u̯)e</b> (s. <b class="b3">ἕ</b>, <b class="b3">ἑ</b>); "das erweiternde [[dh]] wird gewöhnlich, aber ganz willkürlich, mit dem Wort für [[setzen]], [[tun]] (s. <b class="b3">τίθημι</b>) identifiziert" (Frisk). - See [[εἴωθα]], [[ἦθος]], aslo [[ἔτης]] and <b class="b3">ἕταρος</b>.

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