καται-βαταί

Grammatical information: adv. and prep.

Meaning: `(from -) down, down(wards), against, along, through, over, concerning' with gen. (abl.) and acc. (Il.);

Derivatives: also καται- in καται-βαταί (ν 110), καται-βάτης surn. of Zeus etc. (Thera, Melos, Thasos, trag.); cf. καταῖτυξ.

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [512] *km̥th₂e `down, with, along'

Etymology: Identical with Hitt. katta adv. and postpos. `down from, at, with, under'; also the old Celtic word for `with', e. g. OWelsh cant, OIr. cēt-, may belong to it; IE. basis then *kn̥ta (on Hitt. -a- for expected - an- s. Pedersen Hittitisch and Kronasser Vgl. Laut- und Formenlehre 53). Further connection to IE. * kom in Lat. cum etc. (s. κοινός), so that IE. *km̥ta should be assumed, cannot be decided. - The by-forms καται- and Arc. κατύ can be explained best as analogical after παραί resp. ἀπύ ( καται- not = Hitt. katti-mi etc.). - Details in Schwyzer-Debrunner 473ff.

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