- εἶμι
- εἶμιGrammatical information: v.Meaning: `go' (perfective-futuric; cf. Schwyzer-Debrunner 265).Other forms: Inf. ἰέναι only present in ActiveDialectal forms: Myc. ijote \/ijontes\/.Compounds: Very often with prefix: ἄν-, ἄπ-, δί-, εἴσ-, ἔξ- etc.Derivatives: From the simplex; ἴ-θματα pl. `step, pace' (Ε 778 = h. Ap. 114, of doves), = `feet' (Call. Cer. 58); on form. Schwyzer 492 n. 12, 523); ἰσθμός (s. v.), also ἰταμός, ἴτης (s. v.); cf. οἶτος, οἶμος. - From compounds: εἰσ-ί-θμη `entry' (ζ 264, Opp.; cf. ἴθματα and Porzig Satzinhalte 283); ἐξ-ί-τηλος `perishable' (Ion.-Att.), acc. to H. ἴτηλον τὸ ἔμμονον, καὶ οὑκ ἐξίτηλον (A. Fr. 42; cf. Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 119 n. 2); εἰσ-ί-τημα `revenue' (Delos, Delphi); εἰσ-, ἐξ-, κατ-ι-τήριος (D. usw.); δι-, συν-ι-τικός (Arist.). - ἁμαξ-ι-τός s. v., univerbation ἀταρπιτός (s. ἀτραπός). - Iterative ἰτάω in ἰτητέον `eundum est' (Att.) and ἐπανιτακώρ = ἐπανεληλυθώς (Elis); from it εἰσ-ιτητήρια n. pl. `sacrifice at the beginning of a function' (Att.; also εἰσ-ιτήρια, s. above), εἰσ-ιτητός `accessible' (Alkiphr.) and ἰτητικός = ἰταμός (Arist.). - As verbal noun to εἶμι, especially to the compounds, serves ὁδός (ἄν-οδος etc.), Schwyzer-Debrunner 75, Porzig Satzinhalte 201. S. also φοιτάω.Origin: IE [Indo-European] [293] *h₁ei- `go'Etymology: Old athematic root present with exact agreeing forms in several languages: εἶ-μι, εἶ (\< *εἶ-hi), εἶ-σι = Skt. é-mi, é-ṣi, é-ti, Lith. ei-mì, ei-sì, eĩ-ti, Hitt. pāi-mi, pāi-ši, pāi-zi (preverb pe-, pa-), Lat. ī-s, i-t (1. pers. eō \< *ei-ō), IE *ei-mi, -si, -ti; 1. plur. ἴ-μεν : Skt. i-más; ipv. ἴ-θι = Skt. i-hí : Hitt. i-t; impf. Hom. ἤϊα = Skt. ā́yam (with analogical -m), IE *ēi-m̥. Iterative ἰτάω = Lat. itāre, MIr. ethaim. Further details Schwyzer 674, etc. Glottogonic idea on the oriin by Kretschmer Glotta 13, 137f. (from interj. ei?). - On the realation between εἶμι - ἔρχομαι - ἦλθον and other verbs of going Bloch Suppl. Verba 22ff.Page in Frisk: 1,462-463
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.