θαυματίζομαι ἐκπλήττομαι

Grammatical information: n.

Meaning: `wonder, astonishment' (Il.).

Other forms: Hdt. a. o. θῶμα (mss. also θῶυμα; s. below)

Compounds: As 1. member e. g. in θαυματο-ποιός `wonder-worker = juggler' (Pl., D.).

Derivatives: θαυματός `wonderfull' (Hes. Sc. 165, h. Hom., Pi.) with θαυμάσιος `id.' (IA; Schwyzer 466), from where θαυμασιότης (Hp.); θαυματόεις `id.' (Man.); Θαύμας, - αντος (Hes.; Schwyzer 526, Chantraine Formation 269). Denomin. verbs: 1. θαυμαίνω `wonder, admire' (θ 108, h. Ven. 84) with Dor. Θωμάντας (Phleius); 2. θαυμάζω `id.' (Il.; on the formation Schwyzer 734) with θαυμαστής `admirer' and θαυμαστικός (Arist.), θαυμασμός `admiration' (hell.), θαύμακτρον prob. `money paid to see consurer's tricks' (Sophr. 120; cf. Chantraine 332); 3. θαυματίζομαι ἐκπλήττομαι H. - Θώμων (Boeot.); cf. γνῶμα: γνώμων a. o.; s. Bechtel Hist. Personennamen 214.

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]

Etymology: θαῦμα belongs to the group of θάμβος, τέθηπα etc. with Pre-Greek labial\/F (Fur. 228-33); this also explains θῶμα with αυ\/ω, beside which through etymological notation in Hdt. also θῶυμα (Hoffmann Dial. 3, 366f.); from IE the variation cannot be explained. These verbal nouns go back on a verb for `see, observe', seen also in θέα `looking at' (s. v.), θεάομαι `behold'; θαῦμα. Thus Kuiper Gedenksch. Kretchmer (1956) 225, Fur. 236, 242 (who further compares Proto-Hatt. tāu̯u̯a `fear').

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