ἄημι

• ἄω (áō)

From earlier ἄϝημι (áwēmi), from Proto-Hellenic *awēmi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wḗh₁ti, from the root *h₂weh₁- (“to blow; wind”). Cognates include Old English and English wind, Latin ventus, vannus, Sanskrit वाति (vāti, “to blow”).

ἄημι • (áēmi)

1. to breathe, blow
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Fragments 178A
   • 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 2.81
   • 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 3.688
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Fr. 245
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, The Shield of Heracles 8
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 869
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.526
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.5
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 21.386
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 3.176
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 6.131
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 19.440
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 4.9
   • 7th–6th centuries BC, Homeric Hymn to Demeter 276

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• “ἄημι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἄημι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἄημι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄημι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἄημι in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• “ἄημι”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Encyclopedia Papyrus-Larousse (1963)