- πόα
- πόαGrammatical information: f.Meaning: `grass, herb, grassplot', late also `(time of the) hay harvest, summer' (Il., Att.).Other forms: ep. Ion. ποίη (Il.), Dor. (Pi.) ποία.Compounds: Some compp., e.g. ποιο-νόμος `feeding on grass', ποιό-νομος `having grassy pastures' (A. in lyr.), λεχε-ποίης (s. λέχος).Derivatives: 1. Dimin. πο-άριον (ποι-) n. (Thphr.); 2. ποι-ήεις, Dor. -άεις `rich in grass' (Hom., Pi., S. in lyr.); -ηρός `id.' (E. in lyr.); 3. -άζω `to be rich in grass, to bear grass' (Str.); 4. -ασμός m. `weeding, clearing of weeds' (Thphr.), -άστρια f. `weeder (fem.)' (Archipp.), -άστριον n. `weeding tool' (Poll.), from ποάζω = `to weed, to clear of weeds' (only as conj. in Philem. Com. 116, 4). On supposed Boeot. *πύας `meadow' s. Finley Glotta 33, 311.Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [793?] *peiH-? `fatt'Etymology: PGr. *ποίϜᾱ (on the phonetics Schwyzer 188 a. 189 n. 1) agrees exactly with Lit. píeva f. `meadow' (Schulze Q. 45 n. 2); further connections quite hypothetic: to πῖαρ etc. (lit. in Bq and WP. 2, 74); to ποιμήν (Hermann Gött. Nachr. 1918, 282f.). The deviating ποινά ποία. Λάκωνες H. can be a cross with κοινά χόρτος H.Page in Frisk: 2,568-569
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.