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Word-form

λειμών

Transliteration (Word)

leimōn

English translation (word)

meadow

Transliteration (Etymon)

leibō

English translation (etymon)

to drip, to pour

Author

Heridoan

Century

2 AD

Reference

De orthographia, Lentz III/2, p. 543

Edition

A. Lentz, Grammatici Graeci, vol. 3.2, Leipzig: Teubner, 1870 (repr. Hildesheim: Olms, 1965)

Source

Choeroboscus

Ref.

De orthographia (epitome), p. 239

Ed.

J. A. Cramer, Anecdota Graeca e codd. manuscriptis bibliothecarum Oxoniensium, vol. 2, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1835 (repr. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 1963)

Quotation

λειμών: παρὰ τὸ λείβω τὸ καταστάζω λειβών καὶ λειμών.

Translation (En)

Leimōn "meadow": from leibō "to drip", leibōn, and leimōn

Comment

Derivational etymology: the meadow or wetland is the place where the water pours.

Parallels

Etym. Genuinum, lambda 53 (Λειμών· παρὰ τὸ λείβω τὸ καταστάζω· δερκέσκετο δάκρυα λείβων. λειβὼν καὶ λειμών); Epimerismi homerici ordine alphabetico traditi, lambda 7 (λειμών (Β 463): ὁ παράδεισος. παρὰ τὸ λείβω, τὸ καταστάζω, λείβων καὶ λειμών); Etym. Gudianum, lambda, p. 364 (Λειμὼν, ὁ παράδεισος, διὰ τῆς ει διφθόγγου γράφεται παρὰ τὸ λείβω τὸ καταστάζω, λειβὼν καὶ λειμὼν); Etym. Magnum, Kallierges, p. 562 (idem); Eustathius, Comm. Il., vol. 1, p. 388 (Λειμὼν δὲ ὁ ὑγρὸς καὶ βοτανώδης τόπος ἀπὸ τοῦ λείβω λέλειμμαι); ibid., vol. 4, p. 932 (Λειμὼν δέ, εἰς ὃν ὕδωρ λείβεται, ἀπὸ τοῦ λέλειμμαι παρακειμένου); Ps.-Zonaras, Lexicon, lambda, p. 1294 (Λειμών. κῆπος· ἢ τόπος ἀνθηρὸς, ἢ παράδεισος. παρὰ τὸ λείβω, λειβὼν, καὶ λειμών)

Modern etymology

Within Greek, belongs with λιμήν "harbour", λίμνη "lake, marsh". Proto-Greek holokinetic paradigm *lei-mṓn, *li-mén-m̥, *li-mn-ós. The connection with λείβω is hypothetical (Beekes, EDG)

Persistence in Modern Greek

MG still has λειμώνας as a learned word

Entry By

Le Feuvre