ἔραμαι

Uhlenbeck and others consider it cognate with Sanskrit रमते (rámate, “to calm down; to enjoy; to have sex with”), Lithuanian rimti (“calm down”), Gothic 𐍂𐌹𐌼𐌹𐍃 (rimis, “tranquility”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rem-; the Greek could then be from a different extension *h₁er-h₂- from the original root *h₁er-. Beekes leaves the etymology unknown, so he tentatively suggests a Pre-Greek origin.

ἔρᾰμαι • (éramai)

1. (with genitive)
   1. to love (usually of romantic/sexual love, usually of a man)
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.446
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.182
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 20.223
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.238
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.8
      • 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 491
      • 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 697
   2. (of things) to passionately desire, lust after
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.64
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.208
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.96
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 3.20
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 11.50
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 852
      • 438 BCE, Euripides, Alcestis 866
      • 1 CE – 100 CE, Aretaeus, De Curatione Acutorum Morborum 2.5
2. (with infinitive) to desire eagerly
   • 6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 1155
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Paean 6.58
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.92
   • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, Fragments 51
   • 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 700
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 511

• ἀνέραμαι (anéramai)
• ἀντέραμαι (antéramai)
• διέραμαι (diéramai)
• ὑπερέραμαι (huperéramai)

• “ἔραμαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἔραμαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἔραμαι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἔραμαι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἔραμαι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ἔραμαι”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἔραμαι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 449
• Uhlenbeck, C. C. (1898–1899) “rámate”, in Kurzgefasstes etymologisches Wörterbuch der altindischen Sprache (in German), Amsterdam: Johannes Müller, page 245