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|etymtx=Grammatical information: v.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">slumber, be sleepy</b>.<br />Other forms: most pres. (Hp., Att.), aor. <b class="b3">-άξαι</b> (Thphr., LXX), <b class="b3">-άσαι</b> (Dionys. Corn., AP).<br />Compounds: Also w. prefix, e.g. <b class="b3">ὑπο-</b>, <b class="b3">ἐπι-</b>.<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">νυσταγμός</b> m. [[drowsiness]] (Hp., LXX), <b class="b3">νύσταγμα</b> n. <b class="b2">nap, short sleep</b> (LXX), <b class="b3">νύσταξις</b> H. as explanation of <b class="b3">νῶκαρ</b>; <b class="b3">νυστακτής</b> as adjunct of <b class="b3">ὕπνος</b> (Ar. V. 12, Alciphr.), <b class="b3">-ακτικῶς</b> <b class="b2">in a sleepy way</b> (Gal.). Also <b class="b3">νυσταλέος</b> [[sleepy]] (Aret., H.), after <b class="b3">ὑπναλέος</b> with jumping over of the presentsuffix (Debrunner IF 23, 18), <b class="b3">νύσταλος</b> (Com. Adesp.) wit <b class="b3">νυσταλωπιᾶν νυστάζειν</b> H.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [987] <b class="b2">*snud-</b> [[sleepy]], [[slumber]]<br />Etymology: Of <b class="b3">νυστάζω</b> strongly remind some Baltic expressions for [[slumber]], [[sleepy]], e.g. Lith. <b class="b2">snús-tu</b>, <b class="b2">snúd-au</b>, <b class="b2">snús-ti</b> <b class="b2">slumber away</b> with <b class="b2">snud-à</b>, <b class="b2">snùd-is</b> [[sleeper]], [[dreamer]]; with diff. ablaut <b class="b2">snáud-žiu</b>, <b class="b2">snáus-ti</b> [[slumber]]; further with <b class="b2">l-</b>suffix but independent of <b class="b3">νυσταλέος</b> Lith. <b class="b2">snaudãlius</b> <b class="b2">sleepy man</b>, Latv. [[snaudule]] <b class="b2">sleepy-head</b> (de Saussure MSL 6, 76 = Rec. 412, Schulze KZ 29, 263 = Kl. Schr. 376). Then <b class="b3">-τάζω</b> is purely enlarging as in <b class="b3">κλασ-τάζω</b> (<b class="b3">κλα[σ</b>]- or <b class="b3">κλαδ-</b>), <b class="b3">βαστάζω</b> (<b class="b3">βαδ-</b>?) a.o.; cf. Schwyzer 706. If right, the old obvious connection with <b class="b3">νεύω</b> [[nod]] (thus still Schwyzer 348; against it Georgacas Glotta 36, 173) must fall. -- After Solmsen Glotta 2, 75 ff., here also <b class="b3">νυθόν</b>, <b class="b3">νοῦθος</b> (s.v.); very doubtful.

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