θάπτω: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: v.<br />Meaning: [[bury]] (Il.).<br />Other forms: Aor. [[θάψαι]], pass. [[ταφῆναι]], also [[ταθῆναι]], perf. pass. [[τέθαμμαι]],<br />Compounds: also with prefix, e. g. [[ἐνθάπτω]], [[συνθάπτω]], [[καταθάπτω]],<br />Derivatives: [[τάφος]] m. [[burying]], [[tomb]] (Il.), [[ταφή]] [[id.]] (IA); from there thee hypostases [[ἐνθάπτω]], [[ἐπιτάφιος]] [[belonging to the burial]] with [[ἐνταφιάζω]], [[ἐνταφιαστής]] (LXX, pap.); [[ἐπιταφέω]] [[attend a burial]] (inscr.); [[ταφήϊος]] [[belonging to a burial]] (Od.), [[ταφεύς]] [[gravedigger]] (S.; s. Boßhardt Die Nom. auf <b class="b3">-ευς</b> 41), [[ταφών]], [[ταφεών]] ([[place]]) of a [[tomb]] (inscr.), [[ταφικόν]] [[burial costs]] (pap.). - [[τάφρος]] f. (on the genus Schwyzer-Debrunner 34 n. 1) [[ditch]] (for [[fortification]] etc.) (Il.) with [[ταφρεύω]] = [[make a ditch]] (Att.), from which [[ταφρεία]], [[τάφρευμα]], [[τάφρευσις]], [[ταφρευτής]]; rare [[τάφρη]] [[id.]] (Ion.). - Uncertain θάπτ<ρ>α μνῆμα (cod. [[μυῖα]]). [[Κρῆτες]] H.; s. Latte Glotta 34, 196f.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [248] <b class="b2">*dʰembʰ-</b> [[dig]]<br />Etymology: With the generalized zero grade θαπ-, ταφ- < <b class="b3">*θαφ-</b> agrees Arm. damb-an [[tomb]], if one starts from IE dhm̥bh- (but the words are not old, s. Clackson, Relationship Arm. Greek, 1994, 120f.); the full grade <b class="b2">*dʰembʰ-</b> would have been eliminated in both languages. ([[τάφρος]]: damb-an does not allow to posit an [[r-n-]]stem. - Lidén Armen. Stud. 41f. with criticism of older views. - The word could well be a loan: IE origin is uncertain.