The corpus record

εἴσομαι

eisomai

set oneself in movement, hurry

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What it meant

1. εἴσομαι · eisomai — Beekes

εἴσομαι 3 [v-fut.] ‘set oneself in movement, hurry’. 41Ὲ *uei(H)- ‘track down’ (?)> eVAR Aor. (ἐλείσατο. eCOMP Also with prefix: ἐπι- ‘hasten against’, kata- ‘hasten down’, pet- ‘drive inbetween’ (Hom.). *ETYM Originally from (F)iepat, acc. to Bechtel 1914 s.v., so perhaps the word must be understood as (F)icopai, é(F)icato, (F)toato; the loss of the digamma facilitated the (semantic) connection with εἶμι ‘go’ … — [Beekes, s.v. εἴσομαι, p. 441]

2. εἴσομαι · eisomai — Frisk

1. εἴσομαι Fut., Aor. (ἐ)είσατο “sich in Bewegung setzen, sich beeilen’, auch mit Präfix : ἐπι- "auf etw. losfahren’, xare- “hinab-, wer- ‘dazwischen fahren’ (Hom.). — Ursprünglich zu (F}teuaw (Lit. bei Bechtel Lex. 5. v.) und somit vielleicht als (F}toonar, E(F)loaro, (F)ioaro zu verstehen; der allmähliche Verlust deg Digamma hat Anschluß an εἶμι “gehen’ begünstigt (Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1,293 und 412). — Weiteres … — [Frisk, s.v. εἴσομαι, p. 504]

3. εἴσομαι · eisomai — Frisk

2. εἴσομαι Fut. “ich werde wissen’ 5. οἶδα. 3. εἴσομαι in δια-είσεται (Θ 535) 5. εἴδομαι “scheinen’. elow, ἔσω 8. εἰς. — [Frisk, s.v. εἴσομαι, p. 504]

4. εἴσομαι · eisomai — LSJ

fut. of οἶδα (*εἴδω).

II go

Ep. fut. of (ϝ) εί- ‘rush’, ‘hasten’, δεῦρʼ εἴσεται Od. 15.213 : 3 sg. aor. εἴσατο Il. 5.538, etc. ; ἐείσατο 15.415; but sts. simply go, as εἴσῃ Od. 16.313 ; πάλιν εἴσομαι Il. 24.462, al. : c. inf. fut., ἐεισάσθην συλήσειν 15.544.

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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