- δμώς
- δμώς, -ωόςGrammatical information: m.Meaning: `slave, servant' (Il.; s. E. Kretschmer Glotta 18, 71f.),Other forms: also δμῶος (Hes. Op. 430; also Call. Hek. 1, 4, 15 after Gomperz); - f. pl. δμω-ιαί (δμῳαί) `slave-women' (Il.), sec. sg. δμῳή (Q. S.), for *δμῶ-ι̯ᾰ, *δμῳ̃α?; for the accent cf. ἄγυια : ἀγυιαί and Wackernagel Gött. Nachr. 1914, 118f.; also δμωΐς (A.) and δμωϊάς, δμῳάς (Q. S.).Compounds: On the compound ὑπο-δμώς δ 386 s. Sommer A. u. Sprw. 26.Derivatives: Adj. δμώ-ϊος (AP). - Abstract μνώ-ια (μνο-ΐα, μνῴα) serfs in Crete (Str.) with μνωΐτης, μνοΐτης, μνῴτης (Hermon ap. Ath. 6, 267c, Poll.; cf. Redard Les noms grecs en -της 29, Bechtel Dial. 2, 790); on δμ \> μν cf. μεσό-μνη \< μεσό-δμη; s. Schwyzer 208.Origin: IE [Indo-European] [198] *dem- `house', *dm-ōu-sEtymology: To δόμος `house' with the same formation as in πάτρως (ōu-stem; Schwyzer 479f,). S. also Fraenkel Glotta 32, 23.Page in Frisk: 1,402-403
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.