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ἐέλδομαι

eeldomai

to desire, want, long for

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What it meant

1. ἐέλδομαι · eeldomai — Beekes

ἐέλδομαι [v.) ‘to desire, want, long for’ (II.). <1 *h,ueld- ‘wish, desire’> eVAR Only present stem. eCOMP vane ἐπι-έλδομαι (A. R. 4, 783). *DER ἐέλδωρ [n.] (only nom.acc.) ‘desire, wish’ (Il; ἔλδωρ Hdn., H.), also ἐέλδω [f.] (byc. 18; if correct), 376 ἕζομαι *ETYM From ἐ(ξ)έλδομαι (Chantraine 1942: 133 and 182). No cognates outside Greek. Homer has ἔλδ- only three times (E 481, Ψ 122, y 6); these may have undergone … — [Beekes, s.v. ἐέλδομαι, p. 422]

2. ἐέλδομαι · eeldomai — LSJ

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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