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|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[shaking]], [[quake]] (Hes., E. in lyr.).<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[enesidaone]] with difficult -e-<br />Compounds: As 1. member in the ep. compounds <b class="b3">ἐνοσί-χθων</b>, <b class="b3">ἐννοσί-γαιος</b> <b class="b2">earth-shaker</b> surnames of Poseidon; in the same meaning <b class="b3">ἐννοσίδας</b> (Pi.; with <b class="b3">δα-</b> in <b class="b3">Δα-μάτηρ</b> (s. <b class="b3">Δημήτηρ</b> and v. Wilamowitz Glaube 1, 203); after this <b class="b3">εἰνοσί-φυλλος</b> <b class="b2">shaking off foliage</b> (Hom.; <b class="b3">ἐνν-</b>, <b class="b3">εἰν-</b> metr. lengthening; cf. Chantr. Gramm. Hom. 1, 100); cf. Knecht <b class="b3">Τερψίμβροτος</b> 26.<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">ἐνοσιζεται τρέμει</b>, <b class="b3">σείεται</b> (Cyr.).<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Uncertain. The explanation by Pott, followd by many scholars, as <b class="b3">*ἔν-Ϝοθ-τις</b> to <b class="b3">ὠθέω</b> (s. also [[ἔθων]], <b class="b3">ἔθειρα</b>) finds several objections: the sequence <b class="b3">-θ-τ-</b> should have given <b class="b3">-στ-</b> (cf. e. g. <b class="b3">πύσ-τις</b> beside <b class="b3">πεῦ-σις</b>); the <b class="b3">ο-</b>ablaut as in <b class="b3">ἄ-φρων</b> : <b class="b3">φρήν</b> is not expected in a <b class="b3">τι-</b>deriv., and refuted by Myc.; a prefixal <b class="b3">ἐν-</b> is not well explained ("bump against"?). If <b class="b3">ἔνοσις</b> is indeed a primary <b class="b3">τι-</b>deriv. (cf. Holt Les noms d'action en <b class="b3">-σις</b> 94f.), we would rather expect a formation like <b class="b3">ἄρο-σις</b>. <b class="b3">ἔνοσις</b> may have been derived from the compounds. - See Porzig Satzinhalte 193f. M. Janda, Compositiones indogerm. Schindler, 1999, 183-203 assumes a root <b class="b2">*h₁enh₃-</b> <b class="b2">to move</b> from Skt. <b class="b2">ánas</b>, Lat. [[onus]] ? (but no such root is attested, and its meaning would be <b class="b2">carry one a horse</b>, which seems not adequate; also it does no solve the problem provided by Myc.).

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