ἵμερος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[longing]], [[yearning]], [[love]] (Il., cf. Leumann Hom. Wörter 313 w. n. 90).<br />Compounds: Compp., e. g. <b class="b3">ἐφ-ίμερος</b> <b class="b2">filled with yearning, love</b> (Hes., Archil., A.), <b class="b3">ἱμερό-γυιος</b> <b class="b2">with lovely limbs</b> (B.).<br />Derivatives: [[ἱμερόεις]] [[longing]], [[lovely]] (Il.), [[ἱμερώδης]] <b class="b2">id.</b> (Callistr.); [[ἱμείρω]], <b class="b3">-ομαι</b>, also <b class="b3">ἐφ-</b>, [[yearn]], [[desire]] (Il.) with [[ἱμερτός]] <b class="b2">longs for, lovely</b> (since Β 751).<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Uncertain. The connection with Skt. <b class="b2">iṣmá-</b> <b class="b2">spring, god(of love)</b> (Lex.), <b class="b2">iccháti</b> (< <b class="b2">*is-sḱé-ti</b>) [[wish]] (Curtius, Fick, Solmsen KZ 29, 78f., Sommer Lautstud. 27f.), is semantically perhaps not impossible (meaning <b class="b2">god(of love)</b> however invented?, s. Mayrhofer KEWA s. v.), leaves the Greek wordformation unexplained. So perh. rather with Bally MSL 12, 321 from <b class="b2">*si-smero-s</b> resp. <b class="b2">*si-smer-i̯ō</b> with intensifying reduplikation as in Av. <b class="b2">hi-šmarǝnt-</b> <b class="b2">well-conducted</b> to Skt. <b class="b2">smárati</b> (< <b class="b2">*sméreti</b>) [[remember]] (hardly to [[μέριμνα]], [[μέρμερος]], [[μάρτυς]]). So [[ἵμερος]], [[ἱμείρω]] prop. <b class="b2">lively remembering</b> etc. (Cf. Skt. <b class="b2">smará-</b> m. [[love]]); [[ἵμερος]] could be postverbal to [[ἱμείρω]] (Risch 248). Cf. also Schwyzer 282 a. 423.