Δεδίσσω
I terrify
Translated by Catharine Roth3 May 2004Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] I frighten.1 Verbs with double sigma2 accept six [different] vowels. Alpha: a)/llos ["other," gives] a)lla/ssw ["alter, change"]. Epsilon: pu=r , [genitive] puro/s ["fire," gives] pure/ssw ["I have a fever"]. Eta: pth/ssw ["I scare"].3 Iota: dedi/ssw and deidi/ssw and dedi/ttw .
Also [sc. attested is the participle]deditto/menos ["he terrifying"], [meaning] he frightening.4
Upsilon:a)fu/ssw , [meaning] "I draw [a liquid]".5 Omicron: for o)/ssw is changed from o)/ptw .6 Omega: o)neirw/ssw ["I dream"],7 a)grw/ssw ["I hunt"].8
Also [sc. attested is the participle]
Upsilon:
Greek original · Adler’s text
Δεδίσσω· ἐκφοβῶ. τὰ δὲ διὰ δύο σς ῥήματα ἓξ φωνήεντα παραλαμβάνει. α· ἄλλος, ἀλλάσσω. ε· πῦρ, πυρός, πυρέσσω. η· πτήσσω. ι· δεδίσσω καὶ δειδίσσω καὶ δεδίττω. καὶ Δεδιττόμενος, ἐκφοβῶν. υ· ἀφύσσω, τὸ ἀπαντλῶ. ο· τὸ γὰρ ὄσσω ἐκ τοῦ ὄπτω ἐστὶ μετηλλαγμένον. ω· ὀνειρώσσω, ἀγρώσσω.
Betacode
*dedi/ssw: e)kfobw=. ta\ de\ dia\ du/o ss1 r(h/mata e(\c fwnh/enta paralamba/nei. a: a)/llos, a)lla/ssw. e: pu=r, puro/s, pure/ssw. h: pth/ssw. i: dedi/ssw kai\ deidi/ssw kai\ dedi/ttw. kai\ *deditto/menos, e)kfobw=n. u: a)fu/ssw, to\ a)pantlw=. o: to\ ga\r o)/ssw e)k tou= o)/ptw e)sti\ methllagme/non. w: o)neirw/ssw, a)grw/ssw.
Notes (7)
- [1] The headword verb is regularly middle (cf. the participle below), even in the causative sense; for the variation between↩
deid- (as at delta 304) andded- , comparedei/dw andde/dia (see delta 302, delta 305, delta 147, et al.).- 2Or, in Attic, double tau. ↩
- 3See pi 3024, epsilon 2873, epsilon 2874. ↩
- 4See delta 153. ↩
- 5cf. alpha 4665. ↩
- 6The verb
o)/ssomai is from *okw-yo-;o)/pto- from *okw-to- does not occur as a present stem, but the futureo)/yomai from *okw-so- is used for the future ofo(ra/w . ↩- 7See omicron 346, omicron 350. ↩
- 8See alpha 373.
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