εἶμι
Word
Validation
No
Word-form
ἰνίον
Word-lemma
Etymon-lemma
Transliteration (Word)
inion
English translation (word)
occiput
Transliteration (Etymon)
eimi
English translation (etymon)
to go
Century
5 AD
Source
idem
Ref.
Etymologicum, iota, p. 76
Ed.
F. Sturz, Orionis Thebani etymologicon, Leipzig, Weigel, 1820
Quotation
Ἰνίον. ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐν τῇ καταβάσει τῇ ἀπὸ τῆς κορυφῆς κάτω ἰέναι. ἢ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐντεῦθεν ἄρχεσθαι τὰς ἴνας, τουτέστι τὰ νεῦρα· ἐπειδή περ ἴεται διὰ τοῦ σώματος
Translation (En)
Inion "occiput", from the fact that it goes (ienai) downward in the downward path from the summit. Or from the fact that the Ines, that is, the nerves, start from there, since it sends them through the body
Parallels
Meletius, De natura hominis, p. 54 (idem); Leo Medicus, De natura hominum synopsis 28 (idem);Etym. Magnum, Kallireges, p. 470 (idem); Ps.-Zonaras, Lexicon, iota, p. 1110 (Ἰνίον. νεῦρον, ἀπὸ τῆς τοῦ ἐγκεφάλου βάσεως ἐπὶ τὰ πλατέα νεῦρα, ἃ τὴν ἰσχὺν ἡμῶν ἔχειν δοκεῖ)
Modern etymology
Ἰνίον is a derivative of ἴς "sinew" < *wiH- (Beekes, EDG)
Persistence in Modern Greek
MG still has ἰνίο "occiput" as a scientific word
Entry By
Le Feuvre
Comment
Derivational etymology. The occiput is etymologized by reference to its position: when one goes from head to toe, the occiput is the first downward step after the head. The etymology is shaky both formally (the infinitive ἰέναι provides the /I/ and the /n/, assuming the /e/ is dropped) and semantically (the occiput does not "go", at best the description of the body "goes" from one part of the body to the other