σσεύω

Grammatical information: prep., adv.

Meaning: `around, round, excessively, quite, by, at, concerning' (Il.).

Other forms: περί, dial. also πέρ adv. a. prep. (w. gen., dat., acc.).

Derivatives: With κ-suffix (Schwyzer 496 a. 620) πέριξ adv., also prep. `around, round' (mostly Ion. poet.), with ιο-suffix περι-σσός, - ττός `excessive, extraordinary, superfluous' with - σσεύω, - ττεύω etc. (Hes.).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [810] * per(i) `around, excessively'

Etymology: Identical with Skt. pári, Av. pairi `around, excessively, from etc.' Beside it stand in other languages monosyll. forms, which partly may have lost the final -i, e.g. Lat. per `through, over, excessively, very', Germ., e.g. Goth. fair-, NHG ver-, Lith. per- `over, through, very', Slav., e.g. OCS prě-, Russ. pere- `id.' Old IE locative *péri, partly without ending * per, belonging together with πέρᾱ, πάρα, πρό etc., also closely cognate with πείρω; orig. meaning however uncertain ("going out, over, penetrating"?). The encl. - περ (s.v.) also belongs here. -- Further forms from several language w. very rich lit. in WP. 2, 29ff., Pok. 810, W.-Hofmann s. per, Mayrhofer s. pári etc. etc. For Greek also Schwyzer-Debrunner 499 ff. w. extens. documentation.

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