- πτάρνυμαι
- πτάρνυμαιGrammatical information: v.Meaning: `to sneeze' (Hp., X.).Other forms: rare a. late πτάρνεται, πταίρω, πτείρω, πτέρομαι; aor. 2. πταρεῖν (since ρ 541), ptc. also πταρείς (Hp., Arist.), πτάραντες (Arist.; uncertain).Derivatives: πταρ-μός m. `the sneezing' (IA.) with -μικός `causing to sneeze', -μική f. `sneezewort' (Dsc., Gal.; Strömberg Pfl.namen 85); πτόρος `id.' (Hdn. Gr. 1, 191).Origin: ONOM [onomatopoia, and other elementary formations]Etymology: Onomatop. word, prob. genetically cognate both with Arm. p'ṙngam, p'ṙnč̣em `sneeze' as with an Italo-Celt. word, Lat. sternuō `sneeze', Celt., e.g. OIr. sreod `sneezing'; the assumption of a common basis (*pster-) is hypothetic. Lit. w. further Celt. forms in WP. 2, 101, W.-Hofmann s.v.; cf. also Porzig Gliederung 212. On the Arm. form s. Clackson1994, 99. -- Beside it the aspirated ἀποφθαράξασθαι τὸ τοῖς μυκτῆρσιν εἰς τὸ ἔξω ἦχον προέσθαι, ἀποφλάσαι, ῥογχάσαι. Κρῆτες καὶ Σάμιοι H. with meaning as Lat. stertō `sore'.Page in Frisk: 2,610
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