γῆ + νεύω
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γόνυ ὡς εἰς γῆν νεῦον·
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Gonu "knee", for it nods (neuon) toward the earth (gēn)
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Etym. Gudianum Additamenta, gamma, p. 320 (Γόνυ· τὸ εἰς γῆν νεῦον.); Etym. Magnum, Kallierges, p. 238 (Γόνυ: Παρὰ τὸ κονῶ, τὸ ἐνεργῶ, κόνυ καὶ γόνυ· ἢ παρὰ τὸ ὡς γωνίαν ἀποτελεῖν ἐν τῷ κάμπτεσθαι τὸ σκέλος. Ἐτυμολογεῖται δὲ καὶ παρὰ τὸ εἰς γῆν νεύειν. Κλίνεται γόνυος· καὶ ἐν ὑπερθέσει, γουνός. Καὶ γόνατα, κόνατά τινα ὄντα, τροπῇ τοῦ κ εἰς γ· παρὰ τὸ κονεῖν, ὅ ἐστιν ἐνεργεῖν. Γόνατα, γόνυα, καὶ γοῦνα· καὶ γούνων, ἀπὸ τῶν γονάτων, ἢ ἀπὸ τῶν γονύων); Etym. Symeonis, gamma 140 (Γόνυ· παρὰ τὸ κονῶ, τὸ ἐνεργῶ· ἐτυμολογεῖται δὲ παρὰ τὸ εἰς γῆν νεύειν. Ἢ παρὰ τὸ ἐν τῷ κάμπτεσθαι γωνίαν ἀποτελεῖν); Ps.-Zonaras, Lexicon, gamma, p. 449 (Γόνυ. παρὰ τὸ κονῶ τὸ ἐνεργῶ, κόνυ ὄν· ἢ παρὰ τὸ εἰς γῆν νεύειν); Scholia in Batrachomyomachiam 3 (γόνυ ἐτυμολογεῖται ἀπὸ τοῦ κονῶ τὸ ἐνεργῶ κόνυ καὶ γόνυ· τρέπεται γὰρ τὸ κ εἰς τὸ οἰκεῖον μέσον τὸ γ. ἢ ἀπὸ τοῦ εἰς γῆν νεύειν ἢ ἐν τῷ κάμπτεσθαι γωνίαν ἀποτελεῖν)
Comment
Compositional etymology, seemingly referring to the process of kneeling down. The etymology provides the consonantal frame but it requires that the vowels [ē] (in the first member) and [e] (in the second member) be dropped.