- ἐγγύς
- ἐγγύςGrammatical information: adv.Meaning: `near' (in space and time; Il.).Other forms: Comp. and superl. ἐγγυτέρω, -τάτω (-ύτερον, -ύτατα), also ἔγγιστα, ἔγγιον (see Seiler Steigerungsformen 107ff.); late adj. ἐγγύτερος, -τατος (LXX; Schwyzer 534 n. 5).Derivatives: ἐγγύθι `nearby' (Il.), ἐγγύθεν `from nearby' (Il.); ἐγγύτης f. `nearness' (A. D.); ἐγγύδιον ἔγγιον, πλησίον, προσῆκον H. (after the diminutives in -ύδιον); denomin. ἐγγίζω `come near', tr. `approach' (Arist., hell.).Origin: XX [etym. unknown]Etymology: Adverb in -ς as εὑθύς, ἅλις etc. (Schwyzer 620). Because of Lat. comminus one wants to see, with Bezzenberger BB 4, 321 n. 1 (s. also Adontz Mélanges Boisacq 1, 11) in ἐγγύς an old word for `hand', also seen in ἐγγύη, -άω. The first syllable seems the prep. (adv.) ἐν, but further interpretation is uncertain. - Schwyzer 620 n. 3 proposes (hesitantly) the explanation `the hands together' with ἐν from ἕν to Lat. sem-el etc., s. εἷς. Pisani Ist. Lomb. 73 : 2, 47 (to βαίνω as "colui che va innanzi". This may well be correct. The second element will be the neuter = absol. of the root *gʷeu- `to go', "en allant vers, au milieu"; cf. μεσσηγυ De Lamberterie (1990)326-37.Page in Frisk: 1,437
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