δείδω
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δέος· παρὰ τὸ δείω δέος, <ὡς> νείφω νέφος· λέγεται γὰρ καὶ δείδω δίω· ἔνθα δεύτερος ἀόριστος „περὶ γὰρ δίε νηυσὶν Ἀχαιῶν“
Translation (En)
Deos "fear": from *deiō "to fear", does, as from neiphō "to snow" nephos "cloud". Deidō "to fear" also has the form diō, hence the second aorist ‘peri gar dīe nēusin Akhaiōn’ "and he feared for the Achaean ships"
Parallels
Choeroboscus, Epimerismi in Psalmos, p. 75 (Τὸ δέω πόσα σημαίνει; Διὰ τοῦ Ε ψιλοῦ σημαίνει τέσσαρα· δέω τὸ δεσμεύω, ἐξ οὗ καὶ δεσμός· δέω τὸ φοβοῦμαι, ἐξ οὗ καὶ δέος ὁ φόβος· δέω τὸ ἱκετεύω, ἐξ οὗ καὶ τὸ δέομαί σου· δέον δέω […], ἐξ οὗ καὶ τὸ ἔδεον, ἔδεες, ἔδεε, καὶ ἔδει γενέσθαι); Etym. Gudianum, delta, p. 337 (Δείδω· σημαίνει δὲ τὸ φοβοῦμαι· ἀπὸ τοῦ δέος δέω γέγονε, καὶ κατὰ πλεονασμὸν τοῦ ι δείω, καὶ κατ’ ἐπένθεσιν τοῦ δ δείδω); Etym. Magnum, Kallierges, p. 250 (Δέω: Σημαίνει τέσσαρα· τὸ δεσμεύω· τὸ φοβοῦμαι, ἐξ οὗ δέος, ὁ φόβος· τὸ πρέπω, ἐξ οὗ, ἔδεον, ἔδεες, ἔδεε, καὶ κράσει, ἔδει, τὸ ἔπρεπε· τὸ ἱκετεύω, ἐξ οὗ καὶ δέησις); ibid., p. 256 (Δέος: Παρὰ τὸ δείω, τὸ φοβοῦμαι, γίνεται δέος ὁ φόβος, ὡς νείφω, νέφος. Ἢ ἀπὸ τοῦ δέω, τὸ δεσμεύω· ὁ γὰρ φόβος συνδεῖ τοὺς πόδας καὶ τὰ μέλη τοῦ σώματος); Etym. Symeonis, delta 130 (idem); Ps.-Zonaras, Lexicon, delta, p. 483 (idem); Scholia in Sophoclem, Aj. (scholia recentiora) 75g (δειλὸς παρὰ τὸ δήω, δειλὸς καὶ δεϊλός)
Comment
The noun is assumed to be derived from a verb *δείω, supposedly the etymon of δείδω "I fear" (see Parallels). Deriving the noun from the verb agrees with Philoxenus' general method. The parallelism with νείφω / νέφος is formally acceptable but semantically inexact: however, Greek grammarians derived νείφω from an older *νέφω, from which was regularly derived νέφος (see νείφω / νέφος). Herodian gives the reverse derivation, deriving the verb δείδω from the noun δέος (reversible etymology)