πλημῡ̆ρίς

πλημῡ̆ρίς, -ίδος

Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `high tide of the sea, flood' (ι 486, Ion. poet., hell.).

Other forms: Acc. also -ιν (cf. bel.); -μμ- mss.

Derivatives: πλημύ̄ρ-ω `to have flood, to overflow, to submerge' (Archil., B., Call.) with πλήμῡρα f. = πλημυρίς (hell.); byform -έω `id.' (Hp., Plu.; like κύρ-ω : -έω etc., Schwyzer 721) with -ίη, -ία f. (Aret., sch.).

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

Etymology: As ἁλμ-ῠρίς is built from ἅλμη, πλημ-ῠρίς goes back on πλήμ-η (fist hell., but πλήσμη already Hes.; cf. also πλήμνη). From there (or from *πλημυρός like ἁλμυρός?) πλημύ̄ρω with further derivv. From πλημύ̄ρω a.o. the vowellength was also introduced in πλημῡρίς. Bechtel Lex.s. v. -- The geminate μμ, usual in mss., is introduced from πλημμελής and other compp. (Schwyzer 280). The accentuation πλήμυρις, -ιν (sch. as alternative, EM; cf. Wackernagel Gött. Nachr. 1914, 107 [Kl. Schr. 2, 1164] n. 1) can come from the opposite ἄμπωτις (and von πλήμῡρα?). -- The usual connection with μύρομαι is to be rejected. -- The suffix -υρ- is Pre-Greek, and so may be the whole word.

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