πλημυρίς: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=-ίδος<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[high tide of the sea]], [[flood]] (ι 486, Ion. poet., hell.).<br />Other forms: Acc. also <b class="b3">-ιν</b> (cf. bel.); <b class="b3">-μμ-</b> mss.<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">πλημύρ-ω</b> [[to have flood]], [[to overflow]], [[to submerge]] (Archil., B., Call.) with [[πλήμυρα]] f. = [[πλημυρίς]] (hell.); byform <b class="b3">-έω</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Hp., Plu.; like <b class="b3">κύρ-ω</b> : <b class="b3">-έω</b> etc., Schwyzer 721) with <b class="b3">-ίη</b>, <b class="b3">-ία</b> f. (Aret., sch.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: As <b class="b3">ἁλμ-υρίς</b> is built from [[ἅλμη]], <b class="b3">πλημ-υρίς</b> goes back on <b class="b3">πλήμ-η</b> (fist hell., but [[πλήσμη]] already Hes.; cf. also [[πλήμνη]]). From there (or from <b class="b3">*πλημυρός</b> like [[ἁλμυρός]]?) [[πλημύρω]] with further derivv. From [[πλημύρω]] a.o. the vowellength was also introduced in [[πλημυρίς]]. Bechtel Lex.s. v. -- The geminate [[μμ]], usual in mss., is introduced from [[πλημμελής]] and other compp. (Schwyzer 280). The accentuation [[πλήμυρις]], <b class="b3">-ιν</b> (sch. as alternative, EM; cf. Wackernagel Gött. Nachr. 1914, 107 [Kl. Schr. 2, 1164] n. 1) can come from the opposite [[ἄμπωτις]] (and von [[πλήμυρα]]?). -- The usual connection with [[μύρομαι]] is to be rejected. -- The suffix <b class="b3">-υρ-</b> is Pre-Greek, and so may be the whole word.