ναύειν ἱκετεύειν

Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `temple, house of god, sanctuary' (Dor., Thess., young Att., hell.).

Other forms: ναϜός (Lac.), ναῦος (Lesb.), νηός (Hom., Hdt.), νεώς (Att.).

Compounds: Compp., e.g. ναο-κόρος (Delph.), να-κόρος (Dor.), νεω-(νεο-)κό-ρος (IA., hell.) m. `temple-warden' with derivv. (s. κορέω); να(ο)-, νεω-ποιός, second. (Schwyzer 451) - πο(ί)ας, - πο(ί)ης name of an office in charge of the building of a temple, with - ποιέω, - ποιία, - ποιεῖον, -ποϊκός a.o. (inscr. since V<sup>a</sup>); πρό-ναος (A.), Att. - νεως, also -νάϊος, Ion. -νήϊς ( Άθηνᾶ Προναΐα, - νηΐα), `in front of the temple', substant. πρό-ναος, Ion. - νηος m., - ναον, -νάϊον, -νήϊον n. `front hall' (details in Schwyzer-Debrunner 508 n. 1).

Derivatives: 1. Diminutiva: ναΐδιον (Plb., Str.), ναΐσκος m. (Str., J.) with - ίσκιον, - ισκάριον (Pap., Sch.). -- 2. Adj.: ναϊκός `belonging to a temple' (Dodona). -- 3. Denomin.: ναεύω `take sanctuary in a temple' (Gortyn); ναόω `lead into a temple' (Crete); cf. ναύειν ἱκετεύειν, παρά τὸ ἐπὶ την ἑστίαν καταφεύγειν τοὺς ἱκέτας H.

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

Etymology: As common basis of the different dialectforms (s. Schwyzer 224 w. n. 4, 282, Björck Alpha impurum 326 ff.) we get *νασϜος. Therefore the word is mostly analysed as *νασ-Ϝο-ς and as `habitation, house (of the god)' derived from νάσ-σαι, ναίω (s.v.), which is quite possibke; on the Ϝο- suffix Chantraine Form. 123 f., Schwyzer 472. The etymology however has often been doubted: by Hermann Silbenbildung 50, by Chantraine l.c. and Étrennes Benveniste 4 (perh. Mediterranean word), by Lewy KZ 55, 31 f. (Semit. etym.; not convincing). Hrozný Die älteste Völkerwanderung und die protoind. Zivilisation (Praha 1939) 14f. compares Protoind. (Mohendjo-Daro) nasas `great House, palace, magazine'. Fur. 338 w. n. 13 adduces the variants ναιός (Clinias ap. sch. A.R. 2, 1085, H.) and νειός (inscr. Samos 4 c. B.C,).

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