παλάμη: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">(flat) hand, device, means, function</b> (Il.).<br />Compounds: As 2. member a.o. in <b class="b3">δυσ-πάλαμος</b> [[mischievous]], [[helpless]] (A. in lyr.).<br />Derivatives: [[πάλαμις]] (cod. <b class="b3">-ίς</b>) <b class="b3">τεχνίτης παρὰ τοῖς Σαλαμινίοις</b> H. (cf. [[γάστρις]] a.o., Bechtel Dial. 1,452), [[παλαμίς]] f. [[mole]] (Alex. Trall.). Denom. <b class="b3">παλαμ-άομαι</b>, <b class="b3">-ήσασθαι</b> (<b class="b3">παλαμήσας τεχνάσας</b>, [[ἐργάσας]] H.) [[to handle]], [[to perform]], [[to plan]] (Alc., E., Ar., X.) with <b class="b3">-ημα</b> n. [[performance]], [[plan]] (Com. Adesp., Ael.). -- Besides <b class="b3">ἀ-πάλαμν-ος</b> (also <b class="b3">ἀ-πάλαμος</b>) "without hand", [[unadept]], [[helpless]], [[indeliberate]], [[inconsiderate]] (Ε 597); <b class="b3">παλαμν-αῖος</b> <b class="b2">one doing smth. by one's own hand</b>, euphemism = [[murderous]], [[murderer]], [[revenger]] (trag.); both from <b class="b3">*πάλαμα</b> n., s. on [[ἀτέραμνος]] w. lit.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [805] <b class="b2">*plh₂(e)m-</b> [[hand]]<br />Etymology: With <b class="b3">παλά-μη</b>, beside which <b class="b3">*πάλα-μα</b> as <b class="b3">γνώ-μη</b>: <b class="b3">γνῶ-μα</b> (: <b class="b3">γνώ-μων</b>), <b class="b3">μνή-μη</b>: <b class="b3">μνῆ-μα</b> (: <b class="b3">μνή-μων</b>) a.o., agrees except for the number of syllables Lat. [[palma]] f. [[flat hand]], beside which from the west Germ., e.g. OHG [[folma]], Celt. e.g. OIr. [[lām]] [[hand]], which all present an old zero grade [[m-]]derivation (<b class="b2">*plh₂-m-</b>) of a lost verb for [[spread out]]; on the ablaut s. Schwyzer 343 and 362, Ernout-Meillet s. [[palma]]; the Greek form requires <b class="b2">*plh₂-em-</b>, Beekes, Flexion u. Wortbild. 1975, 10ff. (Akten V.Fachtag.); the <b class="b3">μη-</b>suffix further in the close <b class="b3">δραχ-μή</b>, <b class="b3">πυγ-μή</b> etc., s. Porzig Satzinhalte 289 a. 284. -- Other derivations of the verb have been suspected in [[παλαστή]], [[πέλαγος]]; s. also [[πέλανος]], [[πλάσσω]] and [[πλανάω]], also [[ἐπιπολῆς]]. Further forms w. lit. WP. 2, 61 ff., Pok. 805ff., W.-Hofmann s. [[palma]].