ὁμοκλῆσαι

ὁμοκλάω

call: aor inf act (attic ionic)

ὁμοκλέω

aor inf act

ὁμοκλάω

call: aor inf act (attic ionic)

ὁμοκλέω

aor inf act

Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `loud (threatening, scolding) acclamation, command' (Hom., Hes. Sc.; also Emp. [- έων], Pi. [- αῖς], A. Fr. 57,5 = 71,5 [άν]); `attack, onset' (hell.; false duced from Π 147?).

Other forms: (ὀ-?, s.below).

Derivatives: Besides, prob. as denominative, the more usual ὁμοκλ-άω, - έω (ὀ-) in ipf. 3. sg. ὁμόκλα (Σ 156, Ω 248), 3 pl. ὁμόκλ-εον, 1 pl. - έομεν (Ο 658 a.o., ω 173), aor. ὁμοκλῆσαι (Hom., S. El. 712), iter. ipf. ὁμοκλήσασκε (Β 199) `to shout (threateningly), to call, to exhort, to warn'; from there ὁμοκλη-τήρ, - ῆρος m. `shouter, warner' (Μ 273, Ψ 452), f. - τειρα (Lyc. 1337).

Origin: XX [etym. unknown]

Etymology: As the elided ὑπ' ὀμοκλῆς (e.g. Hes. Sc. 341), κέκλετ' ὀμοκλήσας (v. l. Υ 365) point to orig. lenis (Wackernagel Unt. 47 A. 1), one doubted clearly already in antiquity the hard to understand connection with ὁμός etc. In ὀμο- Jacobsohn Phil. 67, 509ff., KZ 42, 160 n. 1, Χάριτες F. Leo (1911) 443 f. wanted to find a counterpart of Skt. áma- m. `violence, pressure, turbulence', Av. ama- m. `power (to attack), strength'; so ὀμο-κλή prop. as determinative comp. "(attack)-, cry" (?). The 2. member, in any case to καλέω, can be a root-noun (Brugmann Grundr.² II: 1,140, Risch $ 72b); but it can also be explained as an ā-abstract ὀμο-κλ-ά̄ (: *ὀμο-κλ-ός like νεο-γν-ός; cf. on μεσόδμη) (Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 8 n. 2 with Jacobsohn l.c.), in which case the laryngeal must have been lost. For the latter interpretation pleads ὁμοκλάν in A. (s. above), as Greek as monosyll. zero grade only knows κλη- (s. on καλέω); an artificial Dorism (Jacobsohn as alternative) is however not excluded. -- On the variation - άω: - έω in the verb, which can be phonetic, s. Schwyzer 242, Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 361.

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