The [verb that means] I am afraid.
*dei/dw: to\ fobou=mai.
A perfect form with present sense, originally *
dedwoya. The root may be that of the number "two" (*
dwei-): to fear is to be in two minds. See Chantraine
Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque s.v., and cf.
delta 147,
delta 163,
delta 302.
Likewise or similarly in other lexica; from a scholion on
Homer,
Iliad 10.39, where the headword occurs (web address 1).
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