ἐλαύνω

ἐλαύνω

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `drive, push, beat out (metal)', intr. `drive, ride' (on the meaning in the Epos cf. Trümpy Fachausdrücke 95f., 115f.);

Other forms: also ἐλάω in inf. ἐλάᾱν, ptc. ἐλάων, impf. ἔλων (Hom.), ipv. ἔλα (Pi.), ἐλάτω, -άντω, -άσθω (Dor. inscr.) etc. (further Schwyzer 681f.), aor. ἐλάσ(σ)αι, -ασθαι, fut. ἐλάω, perf. med. ἐλήλαμαι (Il.), -ασμαι (Hp. usw.), act. ἐλήλακα (Hdt.), aor. pass. ἐλα(σ)θῆναι (Hdt.)

Compounds: often with prefix: ἀπ-, δι-, εἰσ-, ἐξ-, ἐπ-, περι-, προσ- etc.

Derivatives: Nomina actionis: ἔλασις `march (of an army), ride, expulsion etc.' (Ion.-Att.), often of the prefixed verbs: δι-, ἐξ-, ἐπ-, περι-έλασις etc. (see Holt Les noms d'action en -σις, s. index); rare ἐλασία `ride, march' (X.) with ἀπ-, ἐξ-, ἐπ-ελασία (hell.), after βο-ηλασία etc. (from βο-ηλατέω, -άτης), cf. Schwyzer 468f., Chantr. Form. 83f.; ἔλασμα `chased metal, tin, probe' (Ph. Bel., Gal.) with ἐλασμάτιον (Delos II<sup>a</sup>, Dsc.); ἐλασμός = ἔλασμα, ἔλασις (Aristeas); ἔλατρον `flat cake' (Miletos V^a), vgl. ἐλατήρ. Nom. agentis: ἐλατήρ `driver' (Il.) with ἐλατήριος `driving off' (A. Ch. 968 [lyr.]), normally `carrying away, purging', n. `purgative' (Hp.; s. Andre Les ét. class. 24, 41); ἐλατήρ `flat cake' (Com.); ἐλάτης `driver' (E. Fr. 773, 28 [lyr.]) from βοηλάτης (with βοηλατέω, -σία, s. above), ἱππηλάτης, Fraenkel Nom. ag. 2, 31f.; ἐλάστωρ `id.' (App. Anth. 3, 175); ἐλαστής `id.' (EM); ἐλατρεύς ὁ τρίτην πύρωσιν ἔχων τοῦ σιδήρου παρὰ τοῖς μεταλλεῦσιν H.; see Boßhardt Die Nomina auf -ευς 82f.; also as PN (θ 111); s. Boßhardt 120. Verbal adj.: ἐλατός `malleable, beaten' (Arist.), ἐξ-ήλατος `beaten' (Μ 295; several compounds like ἱππ-ήλατος, θε-ήλατος (Ion.-Att.); ἐλαστός `id.' (pap.). - Desiderat. ἐλασείω (Luc.), iterative preterite ἐλάσασκεν (Β 199). - On ἐλασᾶς and 'Ελάστερος s. vv.

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [36] *h₁elh₂- `drive, move'

Etymology: Basis is ἐλᾰ- \< *h₁elh₂-; ἐλαύνω from a verbal noun *ἐλα-Ϝαρ, ἐλα-υν- (to ἐλά-ω like *ἀλε-Ϝαρ, ἀλέ-(Ϝ)ατα to ἀλέω, s. v.). A sec. formation is ἐλαστρέω (s.Έλάστερος s. v). - No certain cognate. (Arm. eɫanim `become' is improbable. Arm. elanem `go out, up' belongs to the verbs in -anem = gr. -άνω). For the Celtic nā-present OIr. ad-ellaim `go to, visit' could belong to πίλναμαι. Other Celtic forms have (p)el-.

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