ἀσπαίρω: Difference between revisions

|Definition=impf. [[ἤσπαιρον]], Ion. and Ep. ἀσπαίρεσκον <span class="bibl">Q.S.11.104</span>: ([[ἀ-]] euph., [[σπαίρω]]):—[[pant]], [[gasp]], [[struggle]], in Hom. always of the dying (so <b class="b3">κραδίη ἀσπαίρουσα</b> must be taken, <span class="bibl">Il.13.443</span>), <b class="b3">περὶ δουρὶ ἤσπαιρ' ὡς ὅτε βοῦς κτλ</b>. ib.<span class="bibl">571</span>; ζωὸν ἔτ' ἀσπαίροντα <span class="bibl">12.203</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Od. 19.229</span>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>977</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">IA</span>1587</span>; νεκροὶ -οντες <span class="bibl">Antipho 2.4.5</span>; ἀ. ἄνω κάτω <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">El.</span>843</span>; of an infant, <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.111</span>; of fish taken out of the water, <span class="bibl">Id.9.120</span>, <span class="bibl">Babr.6.5</span>:—but in <span class="bibl">Hdt.8.5</span> <b class="b3">Ἀδείμαντος ἤσπαιρε μοῦνος</b> was the only one who still [[made a struggle]], [[resisted]]; ἐβόων τε καὶ ἤσπαιρον <span class="bibl">D.H.7.25</span>.—Poet. and Ion. word.

|etymtx=Grammatical information: v.<br />Meaning: [[sprawl]], [[flounder]], [[lie in convulsions]] (Il.).<br />Other forms: only pres. Also [[σπαίρω]] (Arist.)<br />Derivatives: [[ἀσπαρίζω]] (Arist.) cf. [[ἀσκαρίζω]]: [[σκαίρω]].<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [992] <b class="b2">*h₂sperH-</b> [[kick with the foot]]<br />Etymology: The conviction that [[ἀ-]] in [[ἀσπαίρω]] is secondary has no basis. Not with Kretschmer KZ 33, 566, Glotta 12, 189f. from <b class="b3">ἀν-</b> = <b class="b3">ἀνα-</b>. The form without [[ἀ-]] will be secondary (after [[ἀσκαρίζω]]: [[σκαίρω]]?). One compares Lith. <b class="b2">spiriù</b> [[kick with the foot]], but there is much more: Skt. <b class="b2">sphuráti</b> id., Lat. [[sperno]], ON [[sperna]]. Cf. also Pok. 995 <b class="b2">*sp(h)erd(h)-</b> and 996 <b class="b2">*(s)p(h)ereg-</b>.