ἑψία: Difference between revisions

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|etymtx=-ίη<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[joy]], [[play]] (S. Fr. 3, Nic. Th. 880);<br />Other forms: Also <b class="b3">ἀψίαι ἑορταί</b>. <b class="b3">Λάκωνες</b> H.; <b class="b3">ψιά</b> H., <b class="b3">ψιάδδειν</b> = <b class="b3">παίζειν</b> (Ar.). Perhaps <b class="b3">ψίνθος τέρψις</b> H.<br />Compounds: as 2. member in <b class="b3">φιλ-έψιος</b> (Com.), <b class="b3">ὁμ-έψιος</b> (AP ). Also n. pl. <b class="b3">ἕψεια παίγνια</b> H., <b class="b3">ἕψια</b> (EM). Postverbal from <b class="b3">ἑψιάομαι</b>, <b class="b3">-άσασθαι</b>, also with <b class="b3">ἀφ-</b>, <b class="b3">ἐφ-</b>, <b class="b3">καθ-</b>, <b class="b2">(en)joy, play</b> (Od.; cf. Wackernagel Unt. 46f.).<br />Derivatives: Also, through loss of the anlauting vowel (Strömberg Wortstudien 45), <b class="b3">ψιάδδειν</b> = <b class="b3">παίζειν</b> (Ar. Lys. 1302 [lyr.], H.), <b class="b3">ψιά χαρά</b>, <b class="b3">γελοίασμα</b>, <b class="b3">παίγνια</b> H.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Formation like the "verbs of disease" in <b class="b3">-ιάω</b> (Schwyzer 732); further unclear. Obsolete hypotheses in Bq. - Note the variations: <b class="b3">ἐ-</b>, <b class="b3">ἑ- ἀ</b>, stress on first or second syllable and <b class="b3">ψιά</b> H., <b class="b3">ψιάδδειν</b>; the word will be Pre-Greek (Fur. 139, 352, 376). - Meier-Brügger, MSS 50 (1989) assumes a noun <b class="b2">*sengʷ</b>ʰ<b class="b2">-ti-</b> [[singing]], with <b class="b3">*῎῎ἔψις</b> from <b class="b3">*εμψις</b>; one asks why <b class="b3">*ἕμψις</b> was not retained; it does not explain the variations; also there is no reason to assume that the word primarily referred to music.

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