περι-ναιετάω

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `live, inhabit', rare `be situated' (in this meaning also midd. εὖ ναιόμενος), aor. `give as house, settle', pass. `settle (oneself)' (Il.).

Other forms: Aor. νάσ-σαι, - σασθαι, - θῆναι, late forms ναιήσαντο, νένασμαι, νάσσομαι.

Compounds: Also with prefix, e.g. κατα-, ἀπο-, συν-, περι-, παρα-.

Derivatives: Enlarged ναιετάω, also with περι-, μετα-, παρα-, `live, inhabit', also `be situated', esp. in εὖ ναιετάων `well established, situated' (Il.); on the discussed formation Schwyzer 705, Leumann Hom. Wörter 1, 182 ff., Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 358. -- Besides from the presentstem, partly also backformed from ναιετάω, περι-, μετα-ναιέται m. pl. `who live around, with' (Ω 488 a. A. R. 4, 470 resp. Hes. Th. 401), ἁλι-ναιέται `who live on the sea' (B. 16, 97); ἐν-ναέται `inhabitant' (Isyll., A. R.), f. - έτις (A. R.). Simplex ναέτης, Dor. - τας `inhabitant' (poet. since Simon.), f. ναιέτις (Call.); second. ( ἐν-)ναετήρ m. `id.' (AP), f. ἐνναέτειρα ( APl.).

Origin: XX [etym. unknown]

Etymology: On μετανάστης s. v. The causative meaning of νάσσαι is prob. arisen from the opposition to intr. νασθῆναι. The meaning `be situated', often with ναιετάω, esp. in εὖ ναιετάων, rarely with ναίω, is not convincingly explained; perh. we must start from the ptc. εὖ ναιετάων prop. `where one lives well' with the same shift as e.g. in ὁ ἐπιβάλλων `whom it is well' w.o. (type café chantant, s. Debrunner Mus. Helv. 1, 31 ff.); from the ptc. the use might have shifted to the finite forms, sometimes to the primary ναίω. Leumann Hom. Wörter 191 ff. tries to explain the remarkable meaning from a wrong interpretation of Γ 387; against this Fraenkel Gnomon 23, 374. The verbal stem νασ- ( ναίω \< *νάσ-ι̯ω) is isolated. Usu. it is, but with doubtful right, considered as a reduced grade of νεσ- in νέομαι (to which belongs νόστος and also ἄσμενος?); s. there w. further lit. Rejected by Kretschmer Glotta 3, 337. Cf. ναός. - νασ- may be Pre-Greek.

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