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|etymtx=Grammatical information: adv.<br />Meaning: [[often]] (Il.)<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">θαμάκις</b> (: <b class="b3">πολλάκις</b>) <b class="b2">id.</b> (Pi.). <b class="b3">θαμινά</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Pi., Hp.), adj. <b class="b3">θαμινός</b> <b class="b2">crowded, close-set</b> (Call.; cf. <b class="b3">πυκινά</b>, <b class="b3">-ινός</b>) with <b class="b3">θαμινάκις</b> (Hp.); also <b class="b3">θαμεινός</b>, after <b class="b3">αἰπεινός</b> (h. Merc. 44; Wackernagel Gött. Nachr. 1914, 119 n.2 = Kl. Schr. 2, 1176 n. 2).<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Beside <b class="b3">θαμά</b> (accent after <b class="b3">πολλά</b>, Wackernagel Akz. 34 = Kl. Schr. 2, 1103) stands the <b class="b2">u-</b>stem <b class="b3">*θαμύς</b> (<b class="b3">τάχα</b> : <b class="b3">ταχύς</b>) in <b class="b3">θαμέες</b> pl. <b class="b2">close-set, crowded</b>, f. <b class="b3">θαμειαί</b> (Hom.; accent, Schwyzer 385); cf. also <b class="b3">Θαμυ-κλῆς</b> PN (Bechtel Hist. Personennamen 197). Comp. <b class="b3">θαμύντεραι πυκνότεραι</b> H. (cf. <b class="b3">ἰθύντατα</b>). Here also <b class="b3">θάμυρις</b> H., prob. after <b class="b3">πανήγυρις</b>, with which H. glosses it; also as PN (Β 595, inscr.); cf. Bechtel Namenst. 25f.; further <b class="b3">ὁδοὺς θαμυρούς τὰς λεωφόρους</b>; <b class="b3">θαμυρίζει ἁθροίζει</b>, <b class="b3">συνάγει</b> H.; also intr. (BCH 50, 401, Thespiae). - Denomin. of <b class="b3">θαμά</b>: <b class="b3">θαμίζω</b> <b class="b2">come frquently</b> (Il.; cf. Schwyzer 736). Beside <b class="b3">θημ-ών</b>, <b class="b3">θωμ-ός</b> (s. v.) one assumed <b class="b3">θαμ-ά</b> to be a reduced grade, which is impossible (from <b class="b3">θη-</b> in <b class="b3">τί-θη-μι</b>, but this had <b class="b3">θε-</b>, as in [[θέμεθλα]], [[θέμις]]).

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