προ-έγγυος

Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `surety, betrothal' (seit Od.).

Compounds: In ὑπ-έγγυος `under surity, responsable' (A., Hdt.), προ-έγγυος, πρώγγυος `guarantee' (Heraklea, etc.) with προ-εγγυάομαι, πρωγγυεύω, προεγγύησις and in φερ-έγγυος `give surety, guarantee' (Hdt.), ἐχ-έγγυος `giving surety' (S.).

Derivatives: ἐγγυάω, - άομαι `give surety, be surety, guarantee marriage, betrothe' (Od.), also δι-, ἐξ-εγγυάω a. o., with ἐγγύησις ( δι-, ἐξ- ἐγγύη) `surity, betrothal etc.' (D., Is.; cf. Holt Les noms d'action en - σις 156f.), ἐγγύημα ( δι- ἐγγύη) `id.' (pap.), ἐγγυητής `surity' (Ion. Att.; cf. Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 183 and 226f.), f. ἐγγυήτρια (pap.); ἐγγυητή `betrothed' (Att.); ἐγγυητικός `belonging to the surity' (Heph. Astr.); postverbal ἔγγυος m. `guarantor' (Thgn., inscr.), also adj. `guaranteed' (Them.; s. below). - Beside ἐγγυάω also ἐγγυεύω (Delph.).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] {403] *gou- `hand'

Etymology: Probably ἐγγύη and ἐγγυάω contain the prep. ἐν and a lost word for `hand', preserved in Av. gava `both hands' and also in ὑπό-γυ(ι)ος `imminent, sudden', prop. `under hands'? (Ion. Att.). Further in Greek γύαλον, γύης, γυῖα (s. vv.), in other languages e. g. Lith. gáunu `get, obtain'; s. Pok. 403f., Fraenkel Lit. et. Wb. s. gáuti. - So probably ἐγγυάω and ἐγγυαλίζω `give in hands'. - On the meaning of ἐγγύη, ἔγγυος, ἐγγυητής E. Kretschmer Glotta 18, 89f., Gernet Mélanges Boisacq 1, 395. S. also ἐγγύς. See γύη(ς)}.

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