- κρεμάννυμι
- κρεμάννυμιGrammatical information: v.Meaning: `hang (up)', intr. `hang, float'(Att.).Other forms: κρίμνημι and κρήμνημι, -άω (Pi., Hp., trag., com.), also κρεμαννύω and κρεμάω (Arist.), κρεμάζω (LXX), κρεμνάω (Demetr. Eloc.), intr. κρέμαμαι (Il.); aor. κρεμάσαι (Il.), pass. κρεμασθῆναι (Hdt., Att.); fut. κρεμόω (H 83), κρεμῶ (Att.), κρεμάσω (com., LXX), pass. κρεμήσομαι (Ar., hell. pap.); perf. κεκρέμακα, -αμαι (late),Compounds: often with prefix, e.g. ἀνα-, κατα-, ἐκ-.Derivatives: κρεμάθρα f. `hammock' (Ar.), `rope hung from a hook' (Arist.; v.l. -άστρα; s.. below); κρεμάς f. `beetling' (A. Supp. 795, lyr.); κρέμασις, -ασμός (Hp.), -ασμα (sch., Eust.), -ασία (Gloss.) `hanging up' ; κρεμαστήρ "who hangs up", name of certain muscles (medic.), `hanging stalk' (Gp.), -άστρα `hanging flower stalk' (Thphr.; Strömberg Theophrastea 116); ἐκ-, ἀπο-, περι-κρεμής `hanging off, resp. hanging around' from ἐκ-κρεμάννυμι etc.Origin: IE [Indo-European] [573] *kremh₂- `hang'Etymology: Orig. there seem to have been a confective active aorist κρεμά-σαι and a medial present κρέμα-σθαι `hang' (indicating the situation; reshaped after the aorist?). There arose several active presents: κρίμνημι, κρήμνημι (after κρημνός?; Kretschmer KZ 31, 375; unclear Schwyzer 351), κρεμάννυμι (Schwyzer 697), and also κρεμάω, -άζω, κρεμνάω. On κρημνός, however, s.v. - To the old inherited κρεμά-σαι as well as to the other forms there are no agreeing forms outside Greek. In sense Lit. kariù, kárti `hang, hang up' agree best. Goth. hramjan `drucify', compared by Benfey and Pott, can better be left out (after Pok. 623 f. to OE hremman `lock in, hinder', OWNo. hremma `grasp, clench'; diff. again Bengtsson Ark. f. nord. fil. 57, 97 ff.: from *hrams `nail' = OWNo. hrammr `beers claw'). Further Fraenkel Lit. et. Wb. s. kárti 1; also Vasmer Russ. et. Wb. s. krómy.Page in Frisk: 2,13-14
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.