αἴθω

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Word-form

δαίω

Transliteration (Word)

daiō

English translation (word)

to kindle

Transliteration (Etymon)

aithō

English translation (etymon)

to kindle

Author

Etym. Magnum

Century

12 AD

Source

idem

Ref.

Etym. Magnum, Kallierges, p. 250

Ed.

T. Gaisford, Etymologicum magnum, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1848 (repr. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 1967)

Quotation

Δαίω […] Καίω, καὶ τροπῇ τοῦ κ εἰς δ, δαίω. Ἢ ἀπὸ τοῦ αἴθω, τροπῇ καὶ ὑπερθέσει. 

Translation (En)

Daiō "to kindle" […] Kaiō "to kindle", and by change of /k/ into /d/, daiō. Or from aithō "to kindle", by change and transposition

Comment

Derivational etymology deriving the verb from a synonym verb that has a diphthong, too. Since the two verbs are synonyms, the etymology is reversible (see αἴθω / δαίω)

Parallels

There is no parallel

Modern etymology

Δαίω, δέδηα belong with θεσπι-δᾱές "extraordinarily burning", δάος, δαΐς "torch". PIE root *deh2u- "to burn" (Beekes, EDG)

Persistence in Modern Greek

No

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