κινέω
Word
Validation
No
Word-form
κιών
Word-lemma
Etymon-lemma
Transliteration (Word)
kiō
English translation (word)
to go
Transliteration (Etymon)
kineō
English translation (etymon)
to move sth.
Century
12 AD
Source
Idem
Ref.
Exegesis in Homeri Iliadem 1.35
Ed.
M. Papathomopoulos, Ἐξήγησις Ἰωάννου Γραμματικοῦ τοῦ Τζέτζου εἰς τὴν Ὁμήρου Ἰλιάδα, Athens: Academy of Athens, 2007
Quotation
κιών· ἀπὸ τοῦ κινῶ γίνεται κινῶν καὶ κιὼν κατὰ ἔκθλιψιν τοῦ ν· κινοῦντες γὰρ τοὺς πόδας πορευόμεθα, ἢ ἐκ τοῦ ἴω τὸ πορεύομαι, ἰὼν καὶ κιών
Translation (En)
Kiōn "going": from kinô "to move" comes kinôn, and kiōn through expulsion of the [n]. Because we walk by moving our feet. Or from iō "to go", iōn and kiōn.
Parallels
There is no parallel.
Modern etymology
Κίω and κίνυμαι, κινέω are all derived from a PIE root *keih2- found in Hom. μετεκίαθον "followed" (Beekes, EDG)
Persistence in Modern Greek
No
Entry By
Le Feuvre
Comment
Tzetzes reverses here the usual etymology deriving κινέω from κίω (see κινέω / κίω): instead of deriving the longer word from the shorter one, he takes a semantic point of view, that movie a body part is the cause of going, therefore he posits a relationship from cause to consequence.