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|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: [[disaster]], [[sorrow]], [[distress]] (Il.).<br />Compounds: Often as 2. member, e.g. <b class="b3">ἀ-πήμων</b> [[without disaster]], [[undamaged]] (Il.); from there <b class="b3">πήμων</b> [[baleful]] (Orph.). Denominat. <b class="b3">πημαίνω</b> <b class="b2">to do harm, to damage</b> (Il.).<br />Derivatives: Besides the enlargements: <b class="b3">πημον-ή</b> f. <b class="b2">id.</b> (trag., treaty ap. Th. 5, 18), <b class="b3">πημο-σύνη</b> f. <b class="b2">id.</b> (A., E., Orph.), <b class="b3">ἀπημο-σύνη</b> f. [[sorrowlessness]] (Thgn.) = <b class="b3">ἀπημον-ίη</b> f. (Call.); cf. Wyss <b class="b3">-σύνη</b> 33 a. 39.<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Primary verbal noun, in Greek isolated. An exact formal agreement may be found in Av. <b class="b2">pāman-</b> n. name of a skin-disease; further, deviating only in gender, Skt. <b class="b2">pāmán-</b> m. [[kind of skindisease]], [[scratch]]. Semantically much better fits Skt. <b class="b2">pāpmán-</b> m. [[disaster]], [[damage]], [[sorrow]], but this seems a transformation of <b class="b2">pāmán-</b> after <b class="b2">pāpá-</b> [[bad]], [[evil]]. Further connections are uncertain, s. Mayrhofer s. <b class="b2">pāpáḫ</b> and <b class="b2">pāmā́</b> w. further lit., W.-Hofmann s. [[paeminōsus]] (also w. lit.). -- Cf. [[πηρός]] and <b class="b3">ταλαίπωρος</b>.