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|etymtx=Grammatical information: v.<br />Meaning: [[sleep]] (Il.).<br />Other forms: the simplex has only a present-stem exc. fut. <b class="b3">εὑδήσω</b> (A. Ag. 337)<br />Compounds: With prefix <b class="b3">ἐν-</b>, <b class="b3">συν-</b>, esp. <b class="b3">καθ-εύδω</b> (Il.), ipf. <b class="b3">καθ-εῦδον</b>, <b class="b3">-ηῦδον</b>, Att. also <b class="b3">ἐ-κάθευδον</b>, fut. <b class="b3">καθ-ευδήσω</b> (Att.), rare aor. <b class="b3">καθ-ευδῆσαι</b> (Ion.); with <b class="b3">ἐν-</b>, <b class="b3">ἐπι-</b>, <b class="b3">παρα-</b>, <b class="b3">συγ- καθεύδω</b> etc. As aorist we find (<b class="b3">κατα-)δαρθεῖν</b>, (-)<b class="b3">δραθεῖν</b>; Schwyzer-Debrunner 258, Schulze KZ 40, 120 = Kl. Schr. 443; s. [[δαρθάνω]].<br />Derivatives: None.<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Several - unconvincing - suggestions. To Goth. [[sutis]] [[quiet]], [[calm]] (Wood ClassPhil. 9, 148f., Thurneysen IF 39, 189f. [with diff. analysis], Mayrhofer KZ 71,74f.), further with Lat. [[sūdus]] [[soft]] (Mayrhofer KZ 73, 116f.); from IE <b class="b2">*seu-d-</b> beside <b class="b2">*su̯-ep-</b> in Skt. [[svapiti]] [[sleeps]] etc. (Benveniste Origines 1, 156f.; cf. on <b class="b3">ὕπνος</b>); to Lith. <b class="b2">snáudžiu</b>, <b class="b2">snáusti</b> <b class="b2">be sleepy</b> (Otrębski KZ 66, 247ff.); to OE [[swodrian]] <b class="b2">sleep fest</b> (Grošelj Živa Ant. 7, 42). On the difficulties Schwyzer 648 n. 1.