γοάω: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: v.<br />Meaning: [[groan]], [[weep]] (Il.).<br />Other forms: Fut. <b class="b3">γοήσομαι</b> (late <b class="b3">-ήσω</b>), aor. <b class="b3">γοῆσαι</b> (Amorgos), isolated preterite 3. pl. <b class="b3">γόον Ζ</b> 500 (see. Chantr. Gramm. hom. 1, 392 n. 1).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">γόης</b>, <b class="b3">-ητος</b> m. [[sorcerer]] (Ion.-Att.), <b class="b3">γοητικός</b> (Arist.), <b class="b3">γοητεύω</b> [[bewitch]] (Pl.), with <b class="b3">γοητεία</b>, <b class="b3">γοήτευμα</b> (Pl.), <b class="b3">γοήτευσις</b> (Plot.), <b class="b3">γοητευτικός</b> (Poll.), <b class="b3">γοητεύτρια</b> (Eust.); fem. <b class="b3">γοῆτις</b> (AP). - <b class="b3">γόος</b> m. [[wailing]] (Il.). <b class="b3">γοερός</b> (A.), analogical <b class="b3">γοηρός</b> (Lyc.), <b class="b3">γοώδης</b> (Pl.), also <b class="b3">γοεδνός</b> (A.), after <b class="b3">ὀλοφυδνός</b>, <b class="b3">σμερδνός</b> etc. (cf. Schulze Kl. Schr. 398); also <b class="b3">γοήμων</b> (APl.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [403] <b class="b2">*gou(H)-</b> [[call]], [[cry]]<br />Etymology: Like <b class="b3">βοάω</b>, <b class="b3">μυκάομαι</b> etc. (Schwyzer 683) <b class="b3">γοάω</b> is a deverbative intensive and <b class="b3">γόος</b> postverbal. Comparable is OHG <b class="b2">gi-kewen</b> [[call]], OE [[cīegan]] <b class="b2">id.</b> < PGm. <b class="b2">*kaujan</b> (= Gr. <b class="b3">*γοϜέω</b>). One connected the Skt. intensive <b class="b2">jó-guv-e</b> <b class="b2">speak out loudly</b>, where one would assume <b class="b2">*guH-</b>. Further the <b class="b2">r-</b>derivation OCS [[govorъ]] [[noise]] with [[govoriti]] [[make noise]] (Russ. also [[speak]]). Cf. Pok. 403. Perhaps the verb is just an onomatopoeia.