περασ(σ)αι

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `to take for selling, to sell' (Il.).

Other forms: πέρναμαι (Il.), aor. περασ(σ)αι (Il., also Aeol. a. Ion. inscr.) w. fut. inf. περάαν (Φ 454), pass. πρᾱθῆναι, Ion. πρηθ-, w. fut. - ήσομαι, perf. midd. πέπρᾱμαι, - ημαι (IA.), w. fut. πεπράσομαι (Ar., X.); as young Att. innovations act. πέπρᾱκα and pres. πιπράσκομαι, later -ω (Thphr. [?], Luc., Plu.), - ήσκω (Call.); further forms: ἔπρησα (Samos VI^a; to ἐπήθην), πέρνησον πώλησον H. (from present); πεπερημένος (Φ 58; for πεπρημένος after περάσαι).

Compounds: Also w. ἀπο-, παρα-, συν- a.o..

Derivatives: 1. πρᾶσις, Ion. πρῆσις f. ( διά-, ἀπό- πέρνημι a.o.) `sale' (IA.) with πράσιμος `for sale' (Pl., X.; Arbenz 64 a. 66). 2. ἀπόπραμα n. `sub-letting' (hell. pap.). 3. πρατήρ, Ion. πρη- m. `salesman' (IA.) with - ήριον n. `selling point, market' (Hdt.; hell.); also πράτωρ, - ορος m. `id.' (hell. inscr. a. pap.; προ- πέρνημι Din. a. Is. in Poll.) with πρατορεύω `to act as a salesman' (Tenos III<sup>a</sup>). 4. πράτης, - ου m. `id.' (also συμ-, προ- πέρνημι; Att. orator in Poll., pap.); in late papp. etc. often in compounds like ἐλαιο-, οἰνο-πρά-της; cf. also Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 43 f. a. 214. 5. πρατικός in -ή, - όν `sales tax', resp. `sale on commission' (pap.).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [817] * perh₂- `sell'

Etymology: The system περᾰ́-σαι: πέ-πρᾱ-μαι, πρᾱ-θῆναι agrees with zu κερᾰ́σαι: κέ-κρᾱ-μαι, κρᾱ-θῆναι; also with πελᾰ́-σαι: πέ-πλη-μαι, πλῆ-το (s. κεράννυμι and πέλας) etc.; to this πέρ-νη-μι, περ-να-μαι with analog. ε for orig. zero grade, which appears in πορνάμεν πωλεῖν, πορνάμεναι πωλούμεναι H. (Aeol.). The antiquity of this present formation is shown by the identical forms in Celt., OIr. renim `sell' (IE *pr̥-neh₂-: *pr̥-nh₂-); cf. κίρνημι, πίλναμαι. Further without exact non-Gr. agreement. The word represents an old branch of the great family of πείρω, πέρᾱ (s. vv.); on the development of the meaning Schulze Kl. Schr. 203 n. 3, Benveniste BSL 51, 38. -- As present and aor. act. were used for the vanishing πέρνημι, πέρναμαι and περάσαι, esp. in Ion. and Att., other verbs: πωλεῖν ( πωλῆσαι) and ἀποδόσθαι ( ἀποδίδοσθαι), also in fut. πωλήσω and ἀποδώσομαι; s. Chantraine Rev. de phil. 66, 11ff. w. further details a. lit. S. also πόρνη.

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