The corpus record

αἴνυμαι

ainumai

to take, seize

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Where it lives

Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k
Protagoras 4 · 2.25/10k
Odyssey 7 · 0.81/10k
Iliad 6 · 0.54/10k

What it meant

1. αἴνυμαι · ainymai — Beekes

αἴνυμαι [ν.] ‘to take, seize’ (Il.). eVAR Only present. *DIAL Myc. PN a,-nu-me-no /Ainumenos/. eCOMP Often with é&-, also in the verbal noun &-aitoc ‘selected’ (I1.). *ETYM The verbal noun *aitoc is at the base of » aitéw. The same root is found in ToB ai-, ToA e- ‘to give (act.), take (med.), and it was previously thought to be reflected in Hitt. pai-’ ‘to give’, which was analyzed as *pe-ai-. … — [Beekes, s.v. αἴνυμαι, p. 87]

2. αἴνυμαι · ainymai — LSJ

take, taking hold of, seizes, enjoy, feed on

take, αἴνυτο τεύχεʼ ἀπʼ ὤμων Il. 11.580, 13.550; ἀπὸ πασσάλου αἴνυτο τόξον Od. 21.53; χεῖρας αἰνύμεναι taking hold of, 22.500: c. gen. partit., τυρῶν αἰνυμένους 9.225: metaph., ἀλλά μʼ Ὀδυσσῆος πόθος αἴνυται a longing seizes me for him, 14.144, cf. Hes. Sc. 41; enjoy, feed on, καρπόν Simon. 5.17. (Root αἰ-, as in ἔξ-αι-τος.)

In the wild

αἴνυτο · ainyto Shield of Heracles 41
αἴνυτʼ · ainytʼ Iliad 11.374
αἴνυτο · ainyto Iliad 11.580
αἴνυτο · ainyto Iliad 13.550
αἴνυτο · ainyto Iliad 15.459
αἴνυτο · ainyto Iliad 21.490

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. αἴνυμαι (scan p. 87; entry #231).

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