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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Fabricated by ancient grammarians as the full form of contracted ζῶ (zô),[1] but this is truly from ζώω (zṓō), from Proto-Hellenic *ďṓwō, from *gʷyṓwō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷyéh₃woh₂. Doublet of βῐόω (bĭóō).[2]
Verb
ζάω • (záō)
- Alternative form of ζῶ (zô)
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “*ζάω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 496
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ζώω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 505
Further reading
- “ζάω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ζάω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ζάω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ζάω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G2198 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Encyclopedia Papyrus Larousse (1963)
- J.B Hofmann, Ετυμολογικόν Λεξικόν της Αρχαίας Ελληνικής (Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Griechischen)