στέμβω: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: v.<br />Meaning: = <b class="b3">κινῶ συνεχῶς</b> (EM), [[to shake ceaselessly]] (A. Fr. 440 = 635 M., also EM a.o. as explanation of [[ἀστεμφής]]), [[to abuse]], [[to vilify]] (Eust.).<br />Other forms: enlarged <b class="b3">στεμβ-άζειν λοιδο-ρεῖν</b>, [[χλευάζειν]] H., <b class="b3">-άξαι ὑβρίσαι</b> (EM), <b class="b3">-άσεις λοιδιρίαι</b> H.; [[ἀστέμβακτον]] ([[κλέος]], Euph.) = <b class="b3">ἀκίνητον η βέβαιον η τετιμημένον</b> (Et. Gud.); unclear <b class="b3">ἀστέμβακτα τιμωρουμένη</b> (Lyc. 1117); also <b class="b3">ἀστεμβής ἀθαμβής</b>, [[ἀτάραχος]] H. See also bel.<br />Derivatives: Beside it without nasal: <b class="b3">στόβος λοιδορία</b>, [[ὄνειδος]] (Lyc., H.), <b class="b3">στοβ-άζειν κακολογεῖν</b>. <b class="b3">-ασμάτων λοιδοριῶν</b> H., (<b class="b3">ἐπι-)στοβέω</b> [[to mock]], [[to taunt]] (A. R., Epic. anon., EM). -- With aspirata: [[ἀστεμφής]] = [[ἀμετακίνητος]] (H.), [[unshakable]], [[firm]] (ep. Il.). On [[στέμφυλα]] n. pl. <b class="b2">squeezed olives or grapes, olive-, grape-mass</b> (IA.) [[sub verbo|s.v.]] -- With [[o-]]ablaut: <b class="b3">στόμφ-ος</b> m. [[bombastic]], [[high-flown speech]] (Longin.), <b class="b3">-αξ</b>, <b class="b3">-ακος</b> m. [[bombastic speaker]], [[loudmouth]] (Ar. Nu. 1367; from Aesch.), <b class="b3">-άζω</b> [[to speak bombastically]], [[to talk big]] (Ar. a.o.) with <b class="b3">-ασμός</b>, <b class="b3">-αστικός</b> (Eust.); <b class="b3">-όω</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Phld.), <b class="b3">-ώδης</b>, <b class="b3">-ός</b> (sch.). Beside it [[στόμβος]] =- [[βαρύηχος]], [[βαρύφθογγος]] (Hp. ap. Gal.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin] (V)<br />Etymology: To the varying form of the above words (see Schwyzer 333 a. 692) correpond an as varying content. For [[στέμβω]] a meaning [[push violently]], [[shake caeselessly]] is fitting, also for <b class="b3">ἀστεμ-φής</b> [[unshakeable]] (diff., hardly correct, s. v.). From there [[maltreat]], [[revile]], [[ridicule]] in [[στέμβω]], <b class="b3">-άζω</b>, [[στόβος]], <b class="b3">-έω</b>? Unclear remain thus [[στόμφος]], <b class="b3">-αξ</b> etc. -- An attractive connection seems possile with the Germ. deverbative OHG [[stampfōn]], MLD [[stampen]], OSw. [[stampa]] etc. [[stampfen]], smash' with OHG [[stampf]] m. <b class="b2">instrument with which to struck etc.</b>, PGm. <b class="b2">*stamp-</b> (IE <b class="b2">*stomb-</b>); s. WP. 2, 623f., Pok. 1011 ff., also W.-Hofmann s. [[temnō]] (to be kept away), but cf. on [[στέφω]]. -- The forms without nasalization show that the word is Pre-Greek (not in Furnée); further note the variation [[στόμφος]] - [[στόμβος]].