- ἴ̄μερος
- ἴ̄μερος (ῑ)Grammatical information: m.Meaning: `longing, yearning, love' (Il., cf. Leumann Hom. Wörter 313 w. n. 90).Compounds: Compp., e. g. ἐφ-ίμερος `filled with yearning, love' (Hes., Archil., A.), ἱμερό-γυιος `with lovely limbs' (B.).Derivatives: ἱμερόεις `longing, lovely' (Il.), ἱμερώδης `id.' (Callistr.); ἱμείρω, -ομαι, also ἐφ-, `yearn, desire' (Il.) with ἱμερτός `longs for, lovely' (since Β 751).Origin: XX [etym. unknown]Etymology: Uncertain. The connection with Skt. iṣmá- `spring, god(of love)' (Lex.), iccháti (\< *is-sḱé-ti) `wish' (Curtius, Fick, Solmsen KZ 29, 78f., Sommer Lautstud. 27f.), is semantically perhaps not impossible (meaning `god(of love)' however invented?, s. Mayrhofer KEWA s. v.), leaves the Greek wordformation unexplained. So perh. rather with Bally MSL 12, 321 from *si-smero-s resp. *si-smer-i̯ō with intensifying reduplikation as in Av. hi-šmarǝnt- `well-conducted' to Skt. smárati (\< *sméreti) `remember' (hardly to μέριμνα, μέρμερος, μάρτυς). So ἵμερος, ἱμείρω prop. `lively remembering' etc. (Cf. Skt. smará- m. `love'); ἵμερος could be postverbal to ἱμείρω (Risch 248). Cf. also Schwyzer 282 a. 423.Page in Frisk: 1,726
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.