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|etymtx=Grammatical information: v.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">to smash, to break to pieces, to shatter</b> (ep. Il.).<br />Other forms: Aor. <b class="b3">ῥαῖσαι</b>, pass. <b class="b3">ῥαισθῆναι</b>, fut. <b class="b3">ῥαίσω</b>.<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. <b class="b2">opira₃tere</b> ? \/<b class="b2">opi-raisteres</b>\/Baumbach, Minos 11(1970)388-90.<br />Compounds: Also w. <b class="b3">δια-</b>, <b class="b3">ἀπο-</b>.<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">ῥαιστήρ</b>, <b class="b3">-ῆρος</b> [[hammer]], f. (Σ 477; after <b class="b3">σφῦρα</b>?), m. (AP 6, 117), gender elsewhere unknown (A. Pr. 56, Call. Dian. 59 a.o.); <b class="b3">ῥαιστήριος</b> [[shattering]], [[destroying]] (A. R., Opp.); <b class="b3">ῥαίστωρ κραντήρ</b> (= <b class="b2">boars tusk</b>) H. Several compounds in <b class="b3">-της</b>, z.B. <b class="b3">θυμο-ρραίσ-της</b> <b class="b2">life-destroying</b> (Il.), <b class="b3">κυνο-ρραίσ-της</b> <b class="b2">dog louse</b> (ρ 300, Arist.); vgl. Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 44 w. n. 1.<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Rhiming to the in sense close <b class="b3">παίω</b>, <b class="b3">πταίω</b>, also <b class="b3">κναίω</b>, <b class="b3">ψαίω</b>; the <b class="b3">-σ-</b> in <b class="b3">ῥαισθῆναι</b> etc. can be analogical. Etymology unknown; hardly a cross of <b class="b3">ῥήγνυμι</b> and <b class="b3">παίω</b>. Earlier explanations (Skt. <b class="b2">ríṣyati</b> <b class="b2">sustain damage</b>, <b class="b2">sráṃsate</b> [[lapse]]) in Bq and Hofmann Et. Wb. s.v.; also WP. 2, 345f.

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