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|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[whirlpool]], [[eddy]] (Il.)<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. <b class="b2">qe-qi-no-to \/gʷegʷinotos\/</b>, <b class="b2">qe-qi-no-me-no \/gʷegʷinomenos\/</b><br />Compounds: <b class="b3">βαθυδίνης</b> (Il.)<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">δινήεις</b>, Dor. <b class="b3">δινάεις</b>, Aeol. <b class="b3">διννάεις</b> (Alc.) [[whirling]] (Il.); <b class="b3">δῖνος</b> m. <b class="b2">id.</b>, also <b class="b2">round vessel</b> (Ion.-Att. etc.) with <b class="b3">δινώδης</b> [[eddying]] (D. C.) and <b class="b3">δινωτός</b> <b class="b2">with δ., rounded, covered with circles</b> (Hom.; <b class="b3">δινόω</b> only Eust.). - <b class="b3">δινέω</b>, aor. <b class="b3">δινῆσαι</b> etc., also <b class="b3">δινεύω</b>, (<b class="b3">δίννηντες</b> ptc. pl. Sapph. 1, 11; cf. below) tr. <b class="b2">turn around</b>, itr. <b class="b2">id.</b> (Il.) with <b class="b3">δίνησις</b> (Arist.), <b class="b3">δίνημα</b> (Man.), <b class="b3">δίνευμα</b> (conj. in Ar. Th. 122 and X. Eq. 3, 11; Orph.); - rare <b class="b3">δινέμεν</b> (Hes. Op. 598), <b class="b3">δινομένην</b> (Call.), <b class="b3">ἀπο-δινωντι</b> subj. [[thresh]] (Tab. Heracl.; uncertain; change to <b class="b3">ἀποδιδῶντι</b>?); Aeol. <b class="b3">δίννω</b> (Hdn.; <b class="b3">Διννομένης</b> Alc.), <b class="b3">δινάζω</b> (Artem. ap. Ath.). Perh. <b class="b3">Δινών</b> month name (when the corn is threshed).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: Perhaps an old nasal present <b class="b3">*δι-ν-έϜ-ω</b> (cf. <b class="b3">*κι-ν-έϜ-ω</b>, <b class="b3">κί-νυ-μαι</b>) of which the nasal was generalized (cf. <b class="b3">κλίνη</b> : <b class="b3">κλίνω</b>). Aeol. <b class="b3">δίνν-</b> as in <b class="b3">ξέννος</b> (Schwyzer 228). Initial <b class="b3">δι-</b> has been compared with [[δίεμαι]] (s. v.), which Chantr. finds evident "ni pour la forme, ni pour le sens." - The Myc. forms would show an initial labiovelar, from which one would expect rather a labial. Could the form be Pre-Greek? (note that the word has in fact no etymology). Heubeck separates the Myc. forms (Cambridge Coll. Myc. Stud. 229-237).

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