πλάζω: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=-ομαι<br />Grammatical information: v.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">to make devious, to repel, to dissuade from the right path, to bewilder</b>, midd.-pass. <b class="b2">to become devious, to go astray, to wander about</b> (Il.).<br />Other forms: Aor. [[πλάγξαι]], pass. [[πλαγχθῆναι]], fut. [[πλάγξομαι]].<br />Compounds: Also w. <b class="b3">παρα-</b>, <b class="b3">ἀπο-</b> a.o..<br />Derivatives: [[πλαγκτός]] [[devious]], [[mad]], [[bewildered]] (ep. poet. φ 363; Ammann <b class="b3">Μνήμης χάριν</b> 1, 21), [[Πλαγκταί]] f. pl. (sc. [[πέτραι]]) "the shock-rocks" (μ 61 etc.; on the meaning which is not quite clear P.-W. 20, 2193ff.); <b class="b3">πλαγκτο-σύνη</b> f. [[wandering about]] (ο 343, Nonn.; Wyss 26); <b class="b3">πλαγκ-τύς</b>, <b class="b3">-ύος</b> f. <b class="b2">id.</b> (Call.); <b class="b3">-τήρ</b> m. surn. of Dionysos (AP), [[confuser]] ('wanderer'?), <b class="b3">-τειρα ἀτραπιτός</b> [[zodiac]] (Hymn. Is.). Here also [[πλάγγος]]; s. v.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably]<br />Etymology: With [[πλάγξαι]], [[πλαγκτός]] agree formally Lat. [[plānxi]], [[plānctus]] (vowellength sec.); to this [[πλάζω]] as yot-present from <b class="b3">*πλάγγ-ι̯ω</b> against <b class="b2">plang-ō</b>. Further, uncertain comparisons from Alb., Celt. and Germ., for Greek without interest, in W.-Hofmann s. v. So orig. meaning [[beat away]], which in some places, e.g. Φ 269, and in [[Πλαγκταί]] still can be vaguely seen. The most dominant meaning <b class="b2">drive off etc.</b> has formed prob. in the very usual expressions with [[ἀπό]] and other separative expressions. -- The inner nasalisation excepted, which is to be explained either as generalized presentinfix or as onomatop. rootelement (cf. [[κλάζω]], [[κλάγξαι]] and Schwyzer 692), agrees to this the aorist <b class="b3">πλαγ-ῆναι</b>; s. [[πλήσσω]] with further connections and lit., but the short [[α]] is hard to explain: secondary from <b class="b2">*plang-</b>?