ἵημι
Word
Validation
No
Word-form
ἔαρ
Word-lemma
Etymon-lemma
Transliteration (Word)
ear
English translation (word)
blood
Transliteration (Etymon)
hiēmi
English translation (etymon)
to throw
Century
12 AD
Source
idem
Ref.
Etym. Magnum, p. 294
Ed.
T. Gaisford, Etymologicum magnum, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1848 (repr. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 1967)
Quotation
εἶαρ: τὸ αἷμα καὶ εἰαροπότης ὁ αἱματοπότης, ὥς φησι Καλλίμαχος «τὸ δ’ ἐκ μέλαν εἶαρ ἔδαπτεν»· διὰ τῆς ει διφθόγγου· γέγονε γὰρ παρὰ τὸ εἴω τὸ πορεύομαι τὸ τοῦ ἰέναι καὶ πορεύεσθαι ἡμᾶς αἴτιον. ὡς γὰρ εἴλω εἶλαρ καὶ ἔδω ἔδαρ εἶδαρ, οὕτως καὶ εἴω εἶαρ. Ἢ παρὰ τὴν ἕσιν, ἵν’ ᾖ τὸ εὐχερῶς ἐκπεμπόμενον καὶ ἐκρέον
Translation (En)
Eiar, the "blood", and eiaropotēs the "blood-drinker", as Callimachus says ‘to d' ek melan eiar edapten’. With the diphthong <ei>. For it comes from eiō "to go", the one that is the cause by which we go and walk. As eilō, eilar, and edō *edar, eidar, so, too, eiō, eiar. Or from the throwing (hesin), for it is the one easily sent forth and flowing out
Parallels
There is no parallel
Modern etymology
Old name of blood, cognate with Ved. ásr̥k, Hitt. eshar, Toch.B yasar "blood" (Beekes, EDG)
Persistence in Modern Greek
No
Entry By
Le Feuvre
Comment
Derivational etymology. The blood is "thrown", "sent". This does not refer to the circulation of blood within the body (which was unknown to the Greeks), but to the fact that blood gushes out when one is wounded. From ἵημι, only the stem ἑ- is kept (the one found in the action noun ἕσις) and provides the initial vowel of the lemma. The etymology requires the loss of aspiration, which is not mentioned