ἀντι-λάζυμαι

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `seize, grasp, take, get hold of' (Il.),

Other forms: λάζυμαι (h. Merc. 316, also Megar., Thess. [ λάδδουσθη, οὑπο-λάδδουνθη]), both only presentstem.

Compounds: also with ἀντι-, ἀνα-, προσ-.

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [958) * sleh₂gʷ- (IE -a- is impossible) `seize, grasp'

Etymology: The younger λάζυμαι was prob. created after αἴνυμαι (Schwyzer 698, Fraenkel IF 60, 132; older lit. in Bq). As yot-present λάζομαι can stand for *λάγ-ι̯ομαι (or *λάγγ-ι̯ομαι; Brugmann-Thumb 336, 339); the form λαβεῖν, ἔ-λλαβε s. λαμβάνω (and λάβρος ?), which can hardly be separated, requires a labiovelar, IE. *(s)lehleh₂gʷ-i̯- (IE had no phoneme *a). Connection with the isolated OS læccan `seize, grasp', NEngl. latch, seems possible. Pok. 958.

Page in Frisk: 2,71

λάζομαι, [dialect] Ep., [dialect] Ion., and Megar. for λαμβάνω, used by Hom. only in [dialect] Ep. [ per.] 3sg. [tense] impf. λάζετο ( ἐλάζετο only in Il.5.371), and [ per.] 3pl. opt. λαζοίατο (v. infr.); [dialect] Dor. imper.

A

λάσδεο Theoc.8.84

,

λάζευ Id.15.21

, Trag.Adesp.381:—[voice] Act., λάζω Achaean acc. to AB1095:—seize, grasp,

ἔγχος Il.8.389

; πέτρον, μάστιγα, ἡνία, 16.734, 5.840, al.; λ. τινὰ ἀγκάς take one in her arms, ib. 371; ὀδὰξ λαζοίατο γαῖαν may they bite the dust, 2.418: metaph., πάλιν δ' ὅ γε λάζετο μῦθον he took back, i.e. retracted his speech, 4.357, Od.13.254; also in [dialect] Ion. Prose, πεφυκὸς νόσους λάζεσθαι disposed to take them, Hp.Loc.Hom.1; ὀδύνη λάζεται [τὸν ἐγκέφαλον] pain seizes or attacks it, Id.Morb.2.20.

2 receive, λαζόμενος τῶν θυομένων πάντων τὰ δέρματα .. SIG1010.4 ([place name] Chalcedon), cf. 1011.18 (ibid., iii/ii B. C.).

II [dialect] Ep., [dialect] Ion., also [full] λάζυμαι,

ἐπὶ βουσὶν ἐλάζυτο.. Ἑρμῆν h.Merc. 316

; λάζυται τὴν γονήν grasps it, Hp.Mul.1.10, cf.Aret.SD2.13;

φόβος [αὐτὸν] λάζυται Hp.Morb.2.72

, cf. Aret.SD2.12: this form is alone used by Trag. and Com. (exc. in imper.

ἀντιλάζου E.Or. 452

),

λάζυσθε Id.Med. 956

, Ba. 503;

λάζυσθαι Id.HF 943

: c. gen.,

λάζυσθε κύλικος Ar.Lys. 209

(also in compds. ἀντι-, ἐπι-, προ-, προς-, qq. v.); [dialect] Boeot. inf. λάδδουσθη (q.v.).