κῆρ + ἰαίνω

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Word-form

κερδαίνω

Transliteration (Word)

kerdainō

English translation (word)

to profit, to gain from

Transliteration (Etymon)

kēr + iainō

English translation (etymon)

heart + to warm

Author

Orion

Century

5 AD

Source

Idem

Ref.

Etymologicum (excerpta e cod. Darmstadino 2773), kappa, p. 614

Ed.

F.W. Sturz, Etymologicum Graecae linguae Gudianum et alia grammaticorum scripta e codicibus manuscriptis nunc primum edita, Leipzig: Weigel, 1818

Quotation

κερδαίνειν, ἀ παρὰ τὸ κέαρ ἰαῖναι καὶ εὐφραίνειν·

Translation (En)

kerdainein "to profit": from "to warm" (lainai) and "to rejoice" the heart (kear

Comment

Compositional etymology etymologizing the verb from the effect of profit, which pleases man. The first element is assumed to be κέαρ,a pseudo-archaic form deduced from the Homeric and poetic form κῆρ "heart": from κέαρ the initial syllable κερ- is obtained through dropping of the [a]. The suffix -αίνω is identified with the verb ἰαίνω "to warm", implying a loss of the initial [I]. The main manuscript of Orion's Etymologicum has a misspelling Κερδαίνειν. παρὰ τὸ κέρα ἰαίνειν (p. 79).

Parallels

Epimerismi homerici in Il. 1.49d1 (κερδαλεόφρον: παρὰ τὸ φρένα καὶ τὸ κερδαλέον, τοῦτο παρὰ τὸ κερδαίνειν, τοῦτο παρὰ τὸ κέαρ ἰαίνειν, τουτέστι τὴν ψυχὴν εὐφραίνειν); Etym. Gudianum, kappa, p. 316 (Κερδαίνειν, παρὰ τὸ κέρδος· ἣ παρὰ τὸ κέαρ ἰαίνειν, ὅ ἐστιν εὐφραίνειν); Ps.-Zonaras, Lexicon, kappa, p. 1197 (idem); Etym. Magnum, Kallierges, p. 505 (Κερδαίνειν: Ἀπὸ τοῦ κέρδους, ἢ ἀπὸ τοῦ τὸ κέαρ ἰαίνειν).

Modern etymology

Denominative of κέρδος "profit"

Persistence in Modern Greek

MG has κερδίζω, denominative of κέρδος

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