ὀϊζύ̄ς

ὀϊζύ̄ς

Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `bale, wailing, suffering' (Il.).

Other forms: οἰζύ̄ς (trag., Herod.), -ύος.

Compounds: πάν-οιζυς `consisting of nothing but wailing, filled with wailing' (A. in lyr.).

Derivatives: ὀϊζῡ-ρός (-ρώτερος, -ρώτατος metr. length., Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 102 a. 258), sec. οἰζῠρός `woeful, miserable, poor' (ep. ion. Il., Ar.); ὀϊζύω (ῡ̆), aor. -ῦσαι `to wail, to suffer'.

Origin: ONOM [onomatopoia, and other elementary formations].

Etymology: Expressive word, finally from the interj. οἴ (Ion. ὀΐ after Ar. Pax 933), prob. through a verb οἴζω, ὀΐζω (only A.D. Adv 128, 7 ff.). Wrong explanations by Bq, Brugmann IF 29, 209, Schwyzer Glotta 5, 197 (cf. WP. 1, 667 n.). -- Cf. οἰμώζω and οἶκτος.

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