ἐλαύνω

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

  • ἐλάω (eláō) poetic
  • ἐλῶ (elô) Attic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁elh₂- (to drive).[1] Compare Latin alacer (lively, active, brisk), Irish élaim (flee), Proto-Germanic *alaną (to spurn, drive), *lanō (lane)), and Bengali ইলিশ (iliś, hilsa fish, lit. "go-lord").

Pronunciation

 

Verb

ἐλαύνω • (elaúnō)

  1. to drive, set in motion
  2. (of going in conveyances)
    1. (transitive) to ride a horse, drive a chariot, sail a ship
    2. (intransitive) to go, ride, sail
  3. to drive away
    1. to persecute, plague
  4. to strike with a weapon, hit one thing against another
    1. to beat out metal, forge

Inflection

Derived terms

References

  1. Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 209

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