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|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[grass]], [[herb]], [[grassplot]], late also <b class="b2">(time of the) hay harvest, summer</b> (Il., Att.).<br />Other forms: ep. Ion. <b class="b3">ποίη</b> (Il.), Dor. (Pi.) <b class="b3">ποία</b>.<br />Compounds: Some compp., e.g. <b class="b3">ποιο-νόμος</b> <b class="b2">feeding on grass</b>, <b class="b3">ποιό-νομος</b> <b class="b2">having grassy pastures</b> (A. in lyr.), <b class="b3">λεχε-ποίης</b> (s. <b class="b3">λέχος</b>).<br />Derivatives: 1. Dimin. <b class="b3">πο-άριον</b> (<b class="b3">ποι-</b>) n. (Thphr.); 2. <b class="b3">ποι-ήεις</b>, Dor. <b class="b3">-άεις</b> <b class="b2">rich in grass</b> (Hom., Pi., S. in lyr.); <b class="b3">-ηρός</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (E. in lyr.); 3. <b class="b3">-άζω</b> <b class="b2">to be rich in grass, to bear grass</b> (Str.); 4. <b class="b3">-ασμός</b> m. <b class="b2">weeding, clearing of weeds</b> (Thphr.), <b class="b3">-άστρια</b> f. <b class="b2">weeder (fem.)</b> (Archipp.), <b class="b3">-άστριον</b> n. <b class="b2">weeding tool</b> (Poll.), from <b class="b3">ποάζω</b> = <b class="b2">to weed, to clear of weeds</b> (only as conj. in Philem. Com. 116, 4). On supposed Boeot. <b class="b3">*πύας</b> [[meadow]] s. Finley Glotta 33, 311.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [793?] <b class="b2">*peiH-</b>? [[fatt]]<br />Etymology: PGr. <b class="b3">*ποίϜα</b> (on the phonetics Schwyzer 188 a. 189 n. 1) agrees exactly with Lit. <b class="b2">píeva</b> f. [[meadow]] (Schulze Q. 45 n. 2); further connections quite hypothetic: to <b class="b3">πῖαρ</b> etc. (lit. in Bq and WP. 2, 74); to <b class="b3">ποιμήν</b> (Hermann Gött. Nachr. 1918, 282f.). The deviating <b class="b3">ποινά ποία</b>. <b class="b3">Λάκωνες</b> H. can be a cross with <b class="b3">κοινά χόρτος</b> H.

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