ἕννυμι

ἕννυμι, -μαι

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `cloth, put on' (Il.).

Other forms: Ion. εἵνυμι, -μαι, impf. κατα-είνυον Ψ 135 (v. l. -νυσαν, -λυον; cf. εἰλύω), aor. ἕσ(σ)αι, -ασθαι, fut. ἕσ(σ)ω, -ομαι, Att. ἀμφιῶ, -οῦμαι, perf. med. εἷμαι, ἕσσαι, εἷται or ἕσται, εἱμένος, plupef.. ἕστο, ἕεστο (Il.; cf. below), Att. ἠμφίεομαι, ἠμφιεσμένος, poet. ἀμφεμμένος, aor. pass. ptc. ἀμφιεσθείς (Hdn.)

Compounds: Often with preverb, esp. ἀμφι- (always in Attic); also ἐπι-, κατα-, περι-, ἀπαμφι- etc. New presents: ἀμφι-έζω, ἀμφιάζω (s. v.).

Derivatives: ἑανός name of a womans cloth s. v. εἵματα pl. (rarely sg.) `clothes, cover' (Il.), Aeol. (Ϝ)έμματα (γέμματα ἱμάτια H.), Cret. Ϝῆμα (γῆμα ἱμάτιον H.), also gen. sg. Ϝήμας, of Ϝήμᾱ f. (cf. γνῶμα ἕννυμι γνώμη a. o.); often as 2. member, e. g. εὑ-, κακοείμων. Diminut. εἱμάτια pl., Att. ἱμάτια, -ιον (s. v.), with ἱματίδιον, -ιδάριον, ἱματίζω, ἱματισμός. ἔσθος n. `clothes, dress' (Ω 94, Ar. [lyr. u. dor.]), formation like ἄχθος, πλῆθος etc. (Schwyzer 511, Benveniste Origines 199); denomin. perfect ἤσθημαι, mostly in ptc. ἠσθημένος (ἐ-) `clothed' (Ion.) with ἐσθήματα pl. `clothes' (trag., Th.), ἐσθήσεις `id.' (Ath.); cf. Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 106f. More usual than ἔσθος is ἐσθής (Pi. ἐσθάς), -ῆτος f. `id.' (Od.); explan. by Brugmann Grundr.² 2: 1, 527, Schwyzer IF 30, 443; lengthened dat. pl. ἐσθήσεσι (hell.). γέστρα (= Ϝέστρα; cod. γεστία, s. below) ἔνδυσις, στολή, ἱμάτια H.; s. Latte; to ἐφ- resp. ἀμφι-έννυμι: ἐφεστρίς f. `upper garment, coat' (X.), ἀμφι-εστρίς f. `coat, sleeping garment' (Poll.); on the formation Schwyzer 465, Chantr. Form. 338. From ἀμφι-έννυμι further ἀμφίεσμα (Ion.-Att.), -ίεσις (Sch.), -ιεσμός (D. H. 8, 62; v. l. -ιασμός, from ἀμφιάζω).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [1172] *u̯es- `cloth'

Etymology: The present ἕννυμι, εἵνυμι \< *Ϝέσ-νυ-μι (Att. -νν- from restored -σν-, Schwyzer 284, 312, 322, Lejeune Traité de phon. 105) is identical with Arm. z-genum `put on' (aor. z-ge-c̣ay, med.). Beside this nu-present an athem. rootpresent in Indoiranian and Hittite, Skt. vás-te `clothes himself', Hitt. impv. act. 2. pl. u̯eš-ten, ind. pres. med. 3. sg. u̯eš-ta. Exactly parallel are the perfekt forms εἷμαι \< *Ϝέσ-μαι, with analog. εἷται, 2. sg. ἕσ-σαι (Od.), 3. sg. ἐπί-εσται (Hdt. 1, 47, = aind. vás-te); perh. these are reinterpreted (ptc. εἱμένος) old presents; see Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 297, Schwyzer 767. One the σ-aorist cf. Toch. B pret. wässāte `he put on' and Pedersen 106. - The nominal derivv. can be old: ἑανός m.: Skt. vás-ana-m n. `cloth'; εἷμα = Skt. vás-man- n. `cloth'; Ϝέστρᾱ : Skt. vás-tra-m n. `id.', MHG wes-ter `christening robe'. Greek does not have (except uncertain γεστία, s. above) the normal t-deriv. in Lat. ves-ti-s, Arm. zges-t (instr. zgest-u, u-stem), Goth. wasti, Toch. B was-tsi (prop. inf.). - See Ernout-Meillet s. vestis. The idea that IE. u̯es- `cloth' is a deriv. of eu- (*h₁eu-) `put on' in Lat. ind-uō etc.is impossible because of the h₁-.

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