μαιμάω

μαιμάω verg. μωμαι, μαιομαι

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `be eager, quiver with eagerness, rage' (Il.),

Other forms: (μαιμά̄ει, μαιμώωσι etc.), aor. μαιμῆσαι (E 670); enlarged form μαιμάσσω (LXX, AP), also μαιμώσσω (Nic.) and μαιμάζω (Ph.).

Compounds: also with ἀνα-, περι-, ἐπι-.

Derivatives: μαῖμαξ ταραχώδης H., μαιμάκτης, -ου m. "boisterous, stormy", of Zeus as god of the wind in Athens (Plu., Harp., H.; opposite μειλίχιος), also Μαιμακτήρ name of a month (Phocaia), with Μαιμακτηριών, -ῶνος m. `id.' (Att.; prob. first from *Μαιμακτήρια pl. name of a feast, s. v. Wilamowitz Glaube 1, 227 w. n. 2, Nilsson Gr. Rel. 1,111 w. n. 5, 396 w. n. 4); μαιμάχης ὑβριστής (Zonar.). Reduplicated intensive μαι-μά-ω with analogical aor. μαιμῆσαι. The original quantity of the middle syllable is not certain, cf. Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 361 a. 2 and Bechtel Lex. s. v. The late μαιμάσσω can have a purely enlarging -(α)σσω (Schwyzer 733), but it can also contain the velar in μαι-μά-κ-της etc. (Debrunner IF 21, 217).

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]

Etymology: With μαι-μά-ω one connects partly the short-vowel yot-present μά-ιο-μαι `strive', partly the long-vowel verb μῶ-μαι, μῶ-σθαι; s. vv. with further connections. - Here also the semantically unclear ἀ-μαιμάκετος (with pleonastic(?) privative like ἀβέλ-τερος)?; cf. s. v. The reuplication can hardly be of IE origin; also the suffix -ακ- will be Pre-Greek.

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