- dei̯ǝ-2 (di̯ā-, di̯ǝ-, dī-)
- dei̯ǝ-2 (di̯ā-, di̯ǝ-, dī-)English meaning: to swing, moveDeutsche Übersetzung: ‘sich schwingen, herumwirbeln (Balt and partly griech.); eilen, nacheilen, streben”Material: O.Ind. dī́ yati “flies, hovers”; Gk. δῖνος m. “whirl, whirlpool; round vessel, round threshing floor “, δί̄νη (Hom.), Eol. δίννα (compare Διννομένης, Hoffmann Gk. D. II 484) “whirl, whirlpool”, δινέω, δῑνεύω, Eol. δίννημι ‘spin in whirl or circle, swing, brandish”; intr. “ turn me by dancing in circles”; pass. “ roam around, reel around, roll (the eyes) whirl (from river), spin dancing around”, δί̄νω Eol. δίννω “thresh”; Hom. δίω “flee”, δίομαι “ chase away” (with ostentatious distribution the intr. and tr. meaning in active and Medium), Hom. δίενται “to hurry”, δίεσθαι “flee”, ἐνδίεσαν “rush”, διερός (πούς) “ fleeting “ (after ἵετε, ἵεται: ἵενται to thematic δίεται analogical δίενται instead of *δίονται neologism?), διώκω “pursue” (contaminated from Fιώκω and δίεμαι, Meillet MSL. 23, 50 f., Schwyzer Gk. I 702); Hom. δίζημαι (Fut. Hom. διζήσομαι) “ strive for, be troubled about, search, seek”, nachHom. also “ investigate “ (*δι-δι̯ᾱ-μαι), next to which due to *διᾱ-το- Att. ζητέω “ strive for, let me be concerned with “; here with originally *di̯ǝ- : ζάλη ‘storm, violent movement, particularly of the sea”, ζάλος “whirlpool, violent movement of water”? compare about Gk. words containing the ζ Schwyzer Gk. Or. I 330, 833. O.Ir. dīan “quick, fast”, dēne “ quickness “; Ltv. deju, diêt “dance”, dìedelêt “go idly”. About Lith. dainà “folk song” (to dejà “ lamentation?”) compare Mũhlenbach-Endzelin I 432 with Lith. Quite doubtful Welsh dig “mad, wicked, evil”, Russ. díkij “wild”, Lith. dỹkas “minxish, wanton, bratty, unengaged, leisured, unemployed, idle, lazy”, Ltv. dīks “free of work”, O.C.S. divьjь “wild” (Berneker 203 f., Mũhlenbach-Endzelin I 478, Trautmann 54). Not here Gk. δόναξ “reed” (new Ion. δοῦναξ and occasional Dor. δῶναξ metr. lengthening? Schulze Qunder ep. 205, Boisacq 196), δονέω ‘shake”, ἁλίδονος “ rove about in the sea” and Ltv. duonis, duõńi “reed, bulrushes “.References: WP. I 774 ff.
Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.