λίαν + μαίομαι
Word
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Word-form
λαιμός
Word-lemma
Transliteration (Word)
laimos
English translation (word)
throat
Transliteration (Etymon)
lian + maiomai
English translation (etymon)
exceedingly + to seek for
Century
9 AD
Source
Idem
Ref.
Etym Genuinum, lambda 17
Ed.
K. Alpers, Bericht über Stand und Methode der Ausgabe des Etymologicum genuinum [Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Hist.-filol. Meddelelser 44.3. Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1969]
Quotation
Λαιμός· παρὰ τὸ λίαν μᾶν· ἢ παρὰ τὸ λάπτω τὸ σημαῖνον τὸ ἀπὸ δίψης φλέγομαι
Translation (En)
Laimos "throat": from "to seek for" (mân) very much (lian); or from laptō which means "to be consumed by thirst"
Parallels
Etym. Magnum, Kallierges, p. 558 (Λαιμός: Παρὰ τὸ λίαν μᾶν· ἢ παρὰ τὸ λάπτω, ὃ σημαίνει τὸ κατὰ δίψης φλέγομαι); Ps.-Zonaras, Lexicon, lambda, p. 1283 (Λαιμός. παρὰ τὸ λίαν μᾷν, ὅ ἐστι ζητεῖν)
Modern etymology
Unknown (Beekes, EDG)
Persistence in Modern Greek
MG still has λαιμός "throat, neck"
Entry By
Le Feuvre
Comment
Compositional etymology implying a metathesis of the vowels in the first member λίαν > λαι-. Of the second member only the initial consonant is kept. The throat is etymologized as the voracious body part.