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Headword:
*ne/esqai
Adler number: nu,133
Translated headword: to go, to return
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to travel.
Greek Original:*ne/esqai: poreu/esqai.
Notes:
Same or similar entry in other lexica: see the references at
Photius nu85 Theodoridis. From the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 2.84, where the headword occurs. Epic verb, from the root
*nes-, of which the o-grade is seen in
no/stos (
nu 500,
nu 501). See LSJ at web address 1 below. Forms of this verb appear also at
nu 134 and
nu 293.
According to Chantraine s.v., the original sense of the Indo-european root *nes-/nos- was "save" or "bring back safely." In the middle, it could mean "get well" or "come back safely." Germanic derivatives have senses "save, heal, nourish." The Indian pair of gods, the Asvins, are called Nasyata (the "two saviors"). Nestor's name would designate the hero who brings his people home safely. See further Frame (1978) 197; also Frame (2009) at web address 2.
References:
P. Chantraine, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque, ed. 2 (Paris 2009) 771
Douglas Frame, The Myth of Return in Early Greek Epic (Yale UP 1978)
Douglas Frame, Hippota Nestor (Center for Hellenic Studies 2009)
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; mythology; poetry
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 28 January 2001@16:13:35.
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