- ἰνδάλλομαι
- ἰνδάλλομαιGrammatical information: v.Meaning: `appear, seem' (Il., Att.)Other forms: only present-stem except ἰνδάλθην (Lyc., Max.)Derivatives: ἰνδαλμός `appearance, mental image' (Hp.), ἴνδαλμα `id.' (LXX),Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]Etymology: Formed like ἀγάλλομαι (Schwyzer 725) and so perh. from a noun *ἴνδαλον v. t. or built after such a noun. "letzten Endes zu ἰδεῖν, εἶδος (s. vv.)" [Frisk]; on the λ-stem cf. εἴδωλον, on the digamma Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 142. The nasal comes from a present, that is found "in anderer Bedeutung" (Frisk) in Skt. vindáti `find' and in several Celtic forms, e. g. OIr. ro-finnadar `finds out'; also in Celtic nouns e. g. OIr. find, Welsh Vindo-(magus, -bona) `white', Celt. *u̯indo-, the nasal taken from the present. On ἰνδαλμός cf. esp. σχινδαλμός (s.v.). - The conclusion is drawn too quickly. For the meaning one might as well compare εἰκ- `seem' (which is impossible for the κ). The formation with -αλ- (-αλμος) is non-IE; for σχινδαλμός and ὀφθαλμός this is evident from their variants (σχ-\/σκ-, -ινδ-\/ιδ, -αλ(α)μος) s.vv. As the examples εἴδωλον, εἴκελος show, IE forms have -ελ-, -ωλ-, not -αλ-. Therefore the word is rather Pre-Greek. The agreement in form and meaning is just like that in ὀφθαλμός; some such cases are only to be expected.Page in Frisk: 1,727
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.