mē-5, mō-, mǝ-

    mē-5, mō-, mǝ-

    English meaning: to have a strong will; to be intent on smth.

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “heftigen and kräftigen Willens sein, heftig streben”

    Material: Gk. μαίομαι (Eol. μάομαι) ‘strebe, trachte”, wherefore die names Εὔμαιος, Οἰνόμαος, Μαίων (*mǝ-i̯o-); with Intensivredupl. μαιμάω “ demand violent” (-μᾰω with reduplication-grade the root as δαι-δάλλω etc.), Infin. μῶσθαι ‘strive”, participle μώμενος; μῶται (Epich.) ζητεῖ, τεχνάζεται Hes. (and other Glossen), from o-grade perf. grown; Μοῦσα “Muse” here or to mendh-? auf a participle *ματός based on ματεύω ‘search, seek, suche auf; strebe”; participle *μαστός, where after also μαστεύω = ματεύω; ματεῖ ζητεῖ Hes.; Lat. mōs, mōris “die jedem eigene kind of; custom; through consuetude festgewordener custom “, mōrōsus “eigensinnig”; Goth. mōÞs (-d-) “ courage, rage, fury” (mōdags “angry, irate”), O.H.G. M.H.G. muot “ power of Empfindens; ghost, courage, rage, fury, Begehren, Entschluß”, Ger. Mut, Gemũt, O.E. mōd ds., O.Ice. mōðr “rage, fury”; Bal.-Slav. *matō “take wahr” in Ltv. matu, mast “wahrnehmen, feel “, originally iterative Lith. mataũ, matūti ‘see”, Ltv. matu, matît “feel”, Lith. matrùs “ careful “; auf a Subst. *motrobased on Church Slavic moštrjǫ , motriti ‘spectare”, etc.; in addition probably O.Bulg. sъ- mějo, -měti “venture, risk”.

    References: WP. II 238 f., WH. II 114 f., Trautmann 171; probably to mō-, mō-lo-.