βούλομαι

βούλομαι

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `want, wish' (Il.).

Dialectal forms: Arc.-Cypr. Eretr. (also Hom., s. Chantr. Gramm. hom. 1, 311) βόλομαι, Lesb. βόλλομαι, Dor. (Cret.) βώλομαι; Thess. βέλλομαι, Boeot. βείλομη, Dor. (Heracl. etc.) δήλομαι, Locr. Delph. δείλομαι. - Other tempora are based on the present: βουλήσομαι, ἐβουλήθην, βεβούλημαι; to βέβουλα (Α 113) below.

Derivatives: βουλή `will, decision, council' (Il.); Dor. Arc. βωλά, Lesb. βόλλα. Denomin. βουλεύω (βωλ-, βολλ-εύω), -ομαι `deliberate' (Il.), with many deriv.: βούλευμα, βουλεία, βουλευτής, βουλευτήριον `council-chamber'.

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [472?] *gʷel- (*gʷelh₃-?) `want, wish'

Etymology: The verb is much discussed and there is no agreement on its history. The root must have been *gʷel-\/gʷol-. - There may have been a perfect with present meaning *βέβολα, a trace of which could be προ-βέβουλα (Α 113) with newly introduced ου from βούλομαι. The o-vocalism and the β- may have been spread from the perfect. (There may also have been influence of βουλή, but this may itself have been derived from the present.) But it seems doubtful that the perfect alone is the source of all the o-vowels. - The central problem is the origin of the present. One has assumed an n- or an s-suffix; Ruijgh, Lingua 25 (1970) 315f. thinks only -λν- can explain the compensatory lengthening. S. Slings, Mnemosyne 28 (1975) 1-16. - Recently Peters, FS Risch 1986, 311, suggests a root in -h₃. This may help explain the o-vocalism. A nasal present *gʷl-n-h₃- would have given *βαλνο- [or βλανο-?] which was replaced by *βολν-. Pamphylian βΟλΕμενος would have βολε- \< *βελο- \< *gʷelh₃-. Many problems of detail remain. E.g. there is no evidence for βλω- and no basis for the introduction of the o-vocalism; in this view the e-vocalism is also problematic. - On the relation between βούλομαι, ἐθέλω and λῆν s. Braun Atti R. Ist. Veneto 98, 337ff.; Rödiger Glotta 8, 1ff.; Wifstrand Eranos 40, 16ff.

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