νη- + ἄνεμος
Word
Validation
Yes
Word-form
νήνεμος
Word-lemma
Transliteration (Word)
nēnemos
English translation (word)
without wind
Transliteration (Etymon)
nē- + anemos
English translation (etymon)
non + wind
Source
Idem
Ref.
Schol. in Hec. 533
Ed.
W. Dindorf, Scholia Graeca in Euripidis tragoedias, 1863
Quotation
νήνεμος ἐτυμολογεῖται ἀπὸ τοῦ νη στερητικοῦ μορίου καὶ τοῦ ἀνέμου.
Translation (En)
Nēnemos "without wind" comes from the negative particle nē and anemos "wind".
Parallels
Lexicogr. Συναγωγὴ λέξεων χρησίμων (νήνεμος· ἄνεμον οὐκ ἔχων); Photius, Lexicon, Nu 298, 19 (Νήνεμος· ἄνεμον οὐκ ἔχων); Lexica Segueriana, Collectio verborum utilium e differentibus rhetoribus et sapientibus multis, nu 308, 26 (νήνεμος· ἄνεμον οὐκ ἔχων); Suda, nu 319, 1 (Νήνεμος· ἄνεμον οὐκ ἔχων).
Modern etymology
Privative compound of ἄνεμος, cognate with Lat. animus, Ved. ániti "he blows" (Beekes, EDG)
Persistence in Modern Greek
In Modern Greek there is the noun νηνεμία, designating: 1. 'the absence of winds in the sea', 2. (metaphor.) 'the absence of arguments and fightings'.
Entry By
Margelidon
Comment
This etymology is clear and analyzing the adjective νήνεμος as a negative compound is not false, but only almost exact, because the right analysis would have been ν- ἄνεμος, the negative element having been reanalyzed as νη- as in νη-κερδής, "without gain".