στέγηι

στέγῃ, στέγη

roof: fem dat sg (attic epic ionic)

στέγῃ, στέγω

cover closely: pres subj mp 2nd sg

στέγῃ, στέγω

cover closely: pres ind mp 2nd sg

στέγῃ, στέγω

cover closely: pres subj act 3rd sg

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `to cover, to defend, to avert, to keep closed, to bear, to sustain' (posthom.).

Other forms: also aor. στέξαι (Plb. a. o.), στεχθῆναι (VI^p).

Compounds: Also w. ἀπο- a. o.

Derivatives: 1. στεγ-νός `covered, waterproof, clogged' (Ion., E., X. etc.) with - νότης f. `thickness, stoppage' (Hp.), - νόω ( ἀπο- a. o.) `to thicken, to stop', - νωσις f., - νωτικός (hell. a. lat). 2. - ανός `covered, covering, watertight, occluding, occluded' (Att.) with - ανότης f. (Eust.), - ανόω `to cover' (hell. a. late), - ανώματα τὰ ἐν τοῖς τοίχοις, οἱ λεγόμενοι σύνδεσμοι H.; - άνη f. `cover' (AP); - ανίσαι (cod. - ῆ-) στέγῃ ὑποδεχθῆναι H. 3. στεκτικός `for keeping shut against the water' (Pl. a. o.; Chantraine Études 135 a. 137). 4. στέγωσις f. (: *στεγόω) `the roofing' (pap. III^p; cf. στέγ-νωσις, - ασ(σ)ις). -- Beside it στέγνη, Dor. Aeol. -α f. `roof, cope, covered place, house, room' (Alc., Gortyn, IA.). As 1. element in στέγ-αρχος m. `house-master' (Hdt. a.o.); often as 2. element, e.g. ὑπό-στεγος `under a roof, covered' (Emp., Pl., S. a. o.). Also στέγος n. `roof, house' (trag., also hell. a. late prose); as 2. element adapted to στέγω (cf. Schwyzer 513) οὑρανο-στεγής `bearing the sky' (A. Fr. 312 = 619 M. [not with v. Wilam. to be changed in οὑρανο\<ῦ\> στέγηι]). From στέγη ( στέγος): 1. στεγ-ύλλιον n. `hut' = `workshop' (Herod.); 2. ῖτις f. = πόρνη (Poll., H.); 3. - άζω, - άσαι, also w. ἀπο-, κατα- a. o., `to cover, to roof' (IA. a. o.) with - ασ(σ)ις, - αξις ( ἀπο-) f. `the covering' (Epid., Delos IV--II<sup>a</sup>- a. o.; Schwyzer 271, Chantraine Form. 281), - ασμα ( ἀπο-, κατα-, προ-) n. `cover, cope' (Pl., X. etc.), - αστήρ m. `coverer, tile' (Poll., H. as expl. of σωλήν), - αστρίς f. `covering, cope' (Hdt. a. o.), - αστρον n. `covering, cope, container' (A., Antiph. a. o.). -- Also τέγος n. = στέγος (Od.; not trag.) with τέγ-εοι ( θάλαμοι Z 248, δόμοι Emp. 142) meaning not quite clear: `under a roof' (= `upstairs'), roofed'; cf. Schmid - εος a. - ειος 39; - ίδιον n. des. of a female garment (Tanagra a. pap. III^a); quite isolated τέγη f. = τέγος (Vett. Val., H.).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [1013f] * (s)teg- `cover, roof'.

Etymology: With the primary themat. root present στέγω, beside which appear only late incidental non-present forms (for these στεγ-άσαι etc.), agrees Skt. sthagati `cover, conceal', which is however attested only in gramm. (Dhatup.) and by the unpalatalised g makes the impression of an innovation (beside sthagayati); cf. also below). Beside this stands in Latin the s-less tegō, aor. tēxī `cover etc.' (old athemat. presenf? Ernout-Meillet s.v.). Also for τέγος there is outside Greek an agreement, i. e. in. Celt., e.g. OIr. tech `house', IE *tégos- n. The well adapted στέγη might also, though in this form isolated, be inherited from IE. (original root noun ? Ernout-Meillet l. c.). Further the Greek forms can be explained as newly created derivations of a very lively root. We may still mention (for Greek unimportant): Lat. (with old lenghtened grade resp o-ablaut) tēgula, toga; to this as innovation tēctum (Gr. *στεκτός ghostword!); Germ., e.g. OHG dah n. `roof' (IE * togo-m), to which (as denominative or iterative) decchen ' decken'; Balt., e.g. Lith. stógas m. `roof' (IE * stogo-with Kortlandt's law). Further forms w. lit. in Bq, WP. 2, 620f., Pok. 1013f., W.-Hofmann and Ernout-Meillet s. tegō; also Fraenkel s. stíegti o n supp. Lith. *stė́gti. For non-IE. origin of Skt. sthagayati Kuiper Sprachgesch. u. Wortbed. 249. -- Lat. LW [loanword] stega `cover' (from στέγη), segestre, - rum, tegestrum `cover from skin' (from στέγαστρον).

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