περι-ήλυσις

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `come, go'.

Other forms: Fut. (Ion. trag. hell.), aor. ind. ἤλυθον, perf. εἰλήλουθα (`Attic' perf. \< * h₁le-h₁loudʰ-, ptc. ἐ(ι)ληλουθώς (ep.), ἐλήλυθα (posthom.), plur. also ἐλήλυμεν, - τε (Att. Com.), Cyren. ptc. κατ-εληλευθυῖα (Fraenkel Glotta 20, 88f.)

Compounds: Often with prefix: ἀν-, ἀπ-, δι-, εἰσ-, ἐξ-, κατ- etc. Rare transitive (factitive) forms in Doric: ἐλευσίω οἴσω H., aor. 3 pl. ἐλεύσαν (Ibyc.), ἐπ-ελευσεῖ, ἐπ-ελεῦσαι (Gortyn) `bring'. As present one uses ἔρχομαι.

Derivatives: ἔλευσις `arrival' ( Act. Ap. 7, 52), also from the compounds, most rare, all (hell.) late, e. g. συν-, ἐπ-έλευσις. Older the usual ἤλυσις `walk, way' (E.), ἐξ-, περι-ήλυσις (Hdt.) etc. (cf. Holt Les noms d'action en - σις 58 u. 149) with compositional lengthening ( ἤλυσις after the compounds) and the same vowels as in the compounds νέ-ηλυς, - δος `newly arrived' (Il.), ἔπ-ηλυς `immigrated, foreigner' (Hdt., ἐπ-ηλύ-της Th.) a. o.; προσ-ήλυ-τος `new-arrived, proselyte' (LXX, NT) a. o.; further the abstracts ἐπ-ηλυσίη (h. Hom.), κατ-, συν-ηλυσίη (hell.).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [306] * h₁leudʰ- `move, go'

Etymology: The semantically and formally best agreement to this verb with old ablaut is found in Celtic with the OIr. preterite lod, luid `I, he went' (\< * h₁ludh-om, -et: ἤλυθον, -ε), lotar `they went' (*ludh-ont-r̥); formally as good but semantically less convincing is the comparison with Skt. ró(d)hati, Germ., e. g. Goth. liudan `grow, go up' (from where the old word for `people', OHG liut etc.; s. ἐλεύθερος). In both cases one must assume that - θ- (IE - dh-) disappeared analogically in ἤλυσις, ἐλήλυμεν, - τε as well as in (νέ)-, ( προσ)-ήλυτος (after ἐλεύ[θ]σομαι), cf. Schwyzer 704 n. 2, 769 n. 7 w. lit.). It seems less probable that the dental of Celtice etc. was a sec. enlargement. Possible is also connection with Arm. eluzanem `bring out, up' (it is a causative to elanem, s. on ἐλαύνω). - Cf. also ἐλθεῖν.

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