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Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `crossbeam', from wall to wall of a building or from side to side of a ship, in which the mast was let down (details in Bechtel Lex. s. v.; Od., Hp., Q. S.).

Other forms: μεσόδμᾱ (Delph. IV^a), μεσόμνη (Att. inscr.; on the phonetics Schwyzer 208).

Origin: GR [a formation built with Greek elements]

Etymology: Prop. "what belongs to the middle of the house", compound of μέσος and the zero grade of the word for `house', δεμ-, δμ-, seen in δεσ-πότης and δά-πεδον (s. vv.; cf. on δόμος) with ᾱ-suffix: μεσό-δμ-ᾱ like *ἑκατόμ-βϜ-ᾱ (J.Schmidt Pluralbild. 221f., Schwyzer 425 a. 449). From housebuilding the term was transferred to shipbuilding. Often the 2. member - δμη is directly derived from δέμω `build' as zero grade root-noun (cf. νέο-δμᾱ-τος, δέ-δμη-μαι), so "middle-building"; thus Prellwitz BB 17, 172, Persson Beitr. 648, Hermann Gött. Nachr. 1943, 7; cf. also Benveniste BSL 51, 18. Sommer Nominalbild. 76 does not decide the matter. The gloss μεσόδμα γυνή \< ὡς Λάκωνες\> is unclear (gl. 947 has μεσοδόμα).

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Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `herdsman, shepherd', metaph. `guardian, leader, master' (Il.).

Dialectal forms: Myc. pome \/poimḗn\/.

Compounds: Some compp., e.g. ποιμ-άνωρ = ποιμην ἀνδρῶν with ποιμανόρ-ιον n. `herd, troop of men' (A. Pers. 241 a. 74;); on the explanation Sommer Nominalbild. 182 f.; φιτυ-ποίμην `guardian of plants' (A. Eu. 911).

Derivatives: ποιμέν-ιος (AP, APl), earlier a. more often attested - ικός (Pl., hell. poet.) `belonging to herdsmen'; - ισσα f. `shepherdess' (pap. III^a); ποίμν-η f. `herd, flock of sheep' (ι 122) with - ιον n. `id.' (IA.; - ένιον Opp.), - ιος `belonging to herds' (E.), -ήϊος (Β 470, Hes.; Risch $ 46), - ικός (pap. III<sup>p</sup>), - ίτης (E., Poll.), - ιώτης (sch.) `id.'; - ηθεν adv. `of the herd' (A. R.). Denom. verb ποιμαίνω, rarely w. δια-, συν-, `to be a herdsman, to herd, to pasture', midd. `to graze', of the herd (Il.) with ποιμαν-τήρ = ποιμήν (S.), - τικός = ποιμενικός (Gal., H.), ποιμασία f. `the grazing' (Ph.). -- Besides πῶυ, - εος n. `flock of sheep' (ep.Il.).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [839, and 787] * peh₂-(i-) `protect'

Etymology: With ποιμήν agrees except fo the ablaut of the suffix in the nom. (IE ē: ō) Lith. piemuõ, gen. -meñs `herderboy' (on the undisputed stemvowel s. Fraenkel Wb. s. v.). Beside the neuter πῶυ (*poh₂-i̯u) stands as nomen ag. Skt. pāyú-, Av. pāyu- m. `herder, protector'. As basis of these primary fomations served a verb `tend (cattle), keep' in Skt. pā́-ti `keep, protect', from where go-pā́- m. `cowherd' a.o. From the 2. members in nr̥-pā́y-(i)ya- `protecting men', nŕ̥-pī-ti- f. `protection of men' we see an orig. `longdiphthong' pōi: pī (rather * peh₂i-, pih₂- \< ph₂i-), which is retained in πῶυ, pāyú- from *poh₂i̯-u-, wih ποιμήν from *poh₂i-mēn. -- WP. 2, 72 w. lit., Pok. 839, Mayrhofer s. pā́ti¹; also W.-Hofmann s. pāscō. -- Cf. 1. πῶμα.

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