κιχάνω: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Ruijgh-VKr Mnem 22,1969<br />Grammatical information: v.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">reach, get, hit, meet with</b> (Il.).<br />Other forms: (ep.), Att. <b class="b3">κιγχάνω</b>, several aorists: a) athemat. ([[ἐκίχην]]), <b class="b3">-χεις</b>, (<b class="b3">ἐ)κίχημεν</b>, subj. [[κιχείω]], opt. <b class="b3">-χείην</b>, inf. [[κιχήμεναι]], <b class="b3">-χῆναι</b>, ptc. [[κιχείς]], <b class="b3">-χήμενος</b>; b) themat. 3. sg. [[ἔκιχεν]], 3. pl. [[ἔκιχον]], subj. [[κίχω]], [[κίχῃσι]], inf. [[κιχεῖν]], ptc. [[κιχών]]; c) sigmatic [[κιχήσατο]], act. ptc. [[κιχήσας]] (B. 5, 148); d) Dor. [[ἔκιξε]] = [[ἤνεγκε]] (Simm. 26, 7), [[ἀπέκιξαν]] (Ar. Ach. 869; Boeot.), <b class="b3">κίξαντες ἐλθόντες</b>, [[πορευθέντες]], <b class="b3">κίξατο εὗρεν</b>, [[ἔλαβεν]], [[ἤνεγκεν]] H.; fut. [[κιχήσομαι]]<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">κίχησις ἡ λῆψις</b> H.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [418] <b class="b2">*ǵʰeh₁-</b> [[leave]], [[abandon]]<br />Etymology: From a reduplic. root-present <b class="b3">*κί-χη-μι</b> (like <b class="b3">τί-θη-μι</b>) in <b class="b3">κί-χη-μεν</b>, <b class="b3">κι-χή-την</b> a. o. ([[ἐκίχεις]] like [[ἐτίθεις]]), which were seen as aorist when the new present [[κιξάνω]] arose. Innovations are themat. [[ἔκιχεν]] etc. and the sigmatic [[κιχήσατο]] with fut. [[κιχήσομαι]] (Il.); Dorian created a diff. <b class="b3">σ-</b>aorist in [[ἔκιξε]]. Als last member of the new systems arose after [[ἔφθην]], [[φθήσομαι]] : [[φθάνω]] the present [[κιχάνω]]; [[κιγχάνω]] arose after [[λαμβάνω]] etc. Schwyzer 688 w. n. 5, 698; Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 300; 392; 415; 446. - To <b class="b3">*κί-χη-μι</b> from IE. <b class="b2">*ǵhi-ǵhē-mi</b> agree but for the redupl. vowel Skt. <b class="b2">já-hā-ti</b> [[leave]], [[abandon]], Av. <b class="b2">za-zāi-ti</b> [[let go]] (cf. e. g. <b class="b3">δί-δω-μι</b> beside <b class="b2">dá-dā-ti</b>); XX [unknown](aind. Aor. <b class="b2">a-hā-t</b> wie <b class="b3">ἔ-βη-ν</b>, Fut. <b class="b2">hā-sya-ti</b>).XX [unknown] An unredupl. full grade present in the Germanic verb for [[go]] vor; OHG, OE [[gān]], OIc. [[gā]]; on the meaning cf. Skt. midd. <b class="b2">jí-hī-te</b>, 3. pl. <b class="b2">jí-h-ate</b> [[go on]], [[away]] (with zero grade). Remote cognates are suggested in [[χάζομαι]], [[χατέω]], [[χήρα]], [[χώρος]]; s. vv. Ruijgh en Van Krimpen, Mnemosyne XXII (1969) 113-136 find the meaning [[abandon]] in Myc. [[kekemena]] /[[khekhemena]]/ <b class="b2">deserted (land)</b>. They think that the transition in meaning occurred in the sports, where a runner reaches and leaves = passes another. (LIV2 posits <b class="b2">*gʷeh₁-</b>, but there is no indication for a labio-velar.)