Þamma digandin

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `touch with the hand, occupy onseself with' (Ion. Dor. Arc.; not in real Attic or in Hom.; Wackernagel Unt. 222).

Other forms: Aor. θιγεῖν (Lac. σιγῆν Ar. Lys. 1004), fut. med. προσ-θίξῃ (E. Herakl. 652; codd. - εις), τεθίξομαι (E. Hipp. 1086), aor. pass. θιχθῆναι (S. E.),

Compounds: also with prefix like προσ-, ἐπι-, ὑπο-,

Derivatives: θίξις `touch' (Hp., Arist.), θίγμα `id.' (Pergam.), `staining' ( θιγμάτων μιασμάτων H.); uncertain θίγημα (AP 12, 209; cod. φιλήματα) and θιγάνα `cover?' (Delph., Labyad-inscr. C 39).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [244] * dʰeigʰ- `smear, knead'

Etymology: With θιγγάνω, with its double nasalization, agrees in Lat. infixed fingō `spread, knead, form, shape', in Arm. the suffixed diz-anem `heap up'. This etymology (doubts in Schwyzer 701 and in W.-Hofmann s. fingō) presupposes however, that an original χ (IE ǵh) after nasal became γ (which is incorrect, cf. ὄμφαλος; on θάμβος s.v.); from the present the γ would have gone to the aorist θιγεῖν (for *τιχεῖν). Sanskrit has an athematic root present déhmi `smear', IE *dhéiǵh-mi, with 3. pl. ipf. ádihan (= ἔθιγον?); here also Goth. pres. ptc. dat. Þamma digandin `τῳ̃ πλάσαντι'. - Further cognates s. τεῖχος.

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