- πέδη
- πέδηGrammatical information: f.Meaning: `shackle, fetter' (Il.).Other forms: Dor. -α, mostly pl. -αι.Compounds: Often as 2. member, esp. in poets and in late prose, e.g. ἱστο-πέδη; s. on ἱστός with lit.Derivatives: Dimin. πεδ-ίσκη f. (Thebes IIIa), -ιον n. (EM); πεδή-της m. `fettered one, prisoner' (com., Herod., LXX), πέδων, -ωνος m. `id.' (Ar. Fr. 837); denonminative πεδ-άω, -ῆσαι, rarely w. κατα-, ἀμφι-, συν- `to fetter, to bind, to shackle' (esp. poet. since Il.), with πεδα-τάς m. (Dor.) `fetterer' (AP).Origin: IE [Indo-European] [790] *ped- `foot'Etymology: Deriv. of the old word for `foot', which in Greek has o-ablaut in πούς (s. v.); cf. πέδον, -ίον, -ιλον, πέζα. Similar Lat. ped-ica `shackle', im-ped-iō `hinder', Germ. e.g. OWNo. fjǫturr m. `shackle' (PGm. *fetura-); s. W.-Hofmann s. v., WP. 2, 24f., Pok. 792.Page in Frisk: 2,485
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.