- nem-2
- nem-2English meaning: to bendDeutsche Übersetzung: “biegen”Material: O.Ind. námas- n. = Av. nǝmah- n. “ bowing, bending = worship, veneration, Huldigung”, O.Ind. námati “beugt sich, neigt sich, beugt, bends” (Kaus. nümayati), Av. nǝmaiti “beugt sich (weg)” (nümaiti, Kaus. nümayeiti), with apa-, frü- “escape, flee”; participle O.Ind. natá- “ bent, curved “; Gk. νέμος n. “Weideplatz” = Lat. nemus, -oris “Hain”, etc.; Gaul. νεμητον “ sacred Hain”, PN Nemeto-brigü, VN Nemetes, O.Ir. nemed “Heiligtum”, then “Privileg, privilegierte person”; asächs. nimidas ‘sacra silvürum”; Lith. FlN Nẽmunas “Niemen” (= ‘sumpfiger stream”), nẽmuogė “Heidelbeere”; Gaul. nanto “valle”, trinanto “drei Täler”, VN Nantuates, Welsh nant “valley, stream, brook” (*nṃ-tu-, compare participle O.Ind. natá- from nmt̥ ó-); savoy. nã ‘stream, brook”; perhaps here O.Ir. nem ‘sky, heaven”; different above S. 315.References: WP. II 331 f., WH. II 158 f., E. Fränkel REIE. 1, 405 ff.
Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.