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Ancient Greek
Etymology
As a secondary formation in -ντ-, this word presupposed a noun *ἱμᾱ (*himā) or ἱμα (hima) meaning "rope", which is also continued in ἱμάω (himáō), ἱμάσθλη (himásthlē) and ἱμαῖος (himaîos). An n-stem is continued by ἱμονιά (himoniá), which probably derives from *ἱμων (*himōn). This last form exactly matches Proto-Germanic *sīmô (“rope”), and also Sanskrit सीमन् (sīman, “border, frontier, margin”), all from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂i-men (“to tie, bind”). A suffix -m- is also found in Irish sim (“chain”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hi.mǎːs/ → /iˈmas/ → /iˈmas/
Noun
ἱμᾱ́ς • (himā́s) m (genitive ἱμᾰ́ντος); third declension
- leathern strap or thong
- straps on which the body of a chariot was hung
- boxing glove, consisting of several straps put round the hand
- chinstrap of a helmet
- magic girdle of Aphrodite
- whip, scourge
- thong or latchet of a sandal
- dog leash
- well-rope
- diseased condition of the uvula
- (architecture) planks laid on rafters
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Further reading
- “ἱμάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἱμάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἱμάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN