κινέω + ὀδύνη
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Κίνδυνος, παρὰ τὸ κινεῖν τὰς ὀδύνας, κινήδυνός τις ὢν, καὶ κίνδυνος
Translation (En)
Kindunos "danger": from "to move" (kineîn) the pains (tas odunas), a *kinēdunos, as it were, and kindunos.
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Etym. Parvum, alpha 31 (Ἀκίνδυνος· παρὰ τὸ κινεῖν τὰς ὀδύνας γίνεται κίνδυνος, καὶ μετὰ τοῦ στερητικοῦ Α ἀκίνδυνος); Etym. Magnum, Kallierges, p. 49 (idem) Etym. Gudianum, alpha, p. 66 ( Ἀκίνδυνον. ἐκ τοῦ κίνδυνος· τοῦτο δὲ παρὰ τὸ κινεῖν τὰς ὀδύνας κινόδυνος καὶ ἐν συγκοπῇ [ἀ]κίνδυνος); ibid., kappa, p. 322 (Κίνδυνος, παρὰ τὸ κινῶ καὶ τὸ ὀδύνη γίνεται κυνοδύνη, ἐκ τοῦ κινεῖν τὰς ὀδύνας, ἐν συγκοπῇ κίνδυνος· καὶ εἰς τὸ ἀκίνδυνον); Etym. Magnum, Kallierges, p. 514 (Κίνδυνος: Κινόδυνός τις ὢν, παρὰ τὸ κινεῖν εἰς ὀδύνην ἢ εἰς δέος); Scholia in Batrachomyomachiam 9 (κίνδυνος ἐνταῦθα ὁ φόβος. καὶ ἐτυμολογεῖται ἀπὸ τοῦ κινεῖν ὀδύνας καὶ πόνους τὸν ἄνθρωπον)
Comment
Compositional etymology defining the word through its consequence: danger results in harm, hence pain (ὀδύνη referring to physical pain). It requires a syncope of the composition vowel, which is given either as [ē] (Choeroboscus) or as [o] (Etym. Gudianum).