- δέμω
- δέμωGrammatical information: v.Meaning: `build' (Il.).Other forms: Aor. δεῖμαι, perf. Med. δέδμημαι, Dor. δέδμᾱμαιDialectal forms: Myc. demeote \/demeontes\/ ptc. fut. tokodomo \/toikhodomos\/, naudomo \/naudomos\/, etedomo \/entesdomos\/?Compounds: Old compounds νεό-δμᾱτος, νεό-δμη-τος (Pi.). οἰκοδόμος etc.Derivatives: δέμας (nom. and acc.) `building of the body, outward appearance' (Il.; s. Vivante Arch. glottol. it. 40, 44f.) with analogical -ας, δομή `id.' (A. R.), also = `τεῖχος, οἰκοδομή' (H., uncertain J. AJ 15, 11, 3) with δομαῖος `to building useful' (A. R.); - δόμος (δῶμα, δῶ), s.s.v. - Deverb. aorist δωμῆσαι, -ήσασθαι (A. R.; δωμήσουσιν οἰκοδομήσουσι H.), from *δωμάω (or *δωμέω?, Schwyzer 719 n. 5), with δώμημα (Lycia), ἐνδώμησις (Smyrna Ip etc.), δώμησις, δωμητύς H., δωμήτωρ (Man.). - With short vowel late forms: δομέοντι οἰκοδομοῦντι H., δεδομημένος (J., Aristid.) with δόμησις, δόμημα (J.), δομήτωρ (Anon. Prog. in Rh.); from οἰκο-δομέω (Ion.-Att.)? - S. also μεσό-δμη. Nomen agentis οἰκοδόμος with οἰκοδομέω `build'. Adj. ναο-, πυργο- `tempel, fortif. building'.Origin: IE [Indo-European] [198] *demh₁- `build'Etymology: The present δέμω has a parallel in the German. verb Goth. ga-timan, OS teman, OHG zeman `geziemen, fit'. To this group belongs the r-stem for `building wood', e. g. ONo. timbr, OHG zimbar, NHG Zimmer with the denomin. Goth. timrjan etc. `zimmern', PGm. *tim(b)ra-, IE *demh₁-ro- (disyllabic root with germanic loss of the -h₁-; cf. νεό-δμᾱ-τος, δέ-δμᾱ-μαι), from *-dm̥h₁-. The root had -h₁-: Beekes, Development (291 Add. to p. 202), pointing to notations with η in Pindar; thus Ruijgh, Lingua 25 (1970) 316, who points to Myc. demeote. - Here further Hier.-Luw. ta+mi-ha `I built' (Kronasser ΜΝΗΜΗΣ ΧΑΡΙΝ 1, 201). - See further δόμος,{{}}δῶμα, δεσπότης, μεσόδμη.Page in Frisk: 1,364
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.