fo-gabim

error

fault

lapse

miscarriage

mistake

pitfall

trip

wrongdoing

m drejtshkrimi

misspelling

m shtypi

erratum

m shtypi

misprint

m trashanik

blunder

to be mistaken

to be wrong

to mispronounce

to prove sb. wrong

get, Irish faghaim, Early Irish fagbaim, Old Irish ní fogbai, non invenis, from fo-gabim, root gab of gabh, q.v.

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `find' (τ 158)

Other forms: Aor. εὑρεῖν, ind. εὗρον (Il.; later also ηὗρον), fut. εὑρήσω (h. Merc. 302, Ion.-Att.), perf. εὕρηκα, - ημαι ( ηὕρ-), aor. pass. εὑρεθῆναι with fut. εὑρεθήσομαι (Ion.-Att.)

Compounds: often with prefix, e. g. ἀν-, ἐξ-, ἐφ-. As 1. member εὑρησι- (later εὑρεσι-) in εὑρησι-επής `who finds ἔπη, epic poet' (Pi.), εὑρησι-λογέω `find grounds, find excuses' and - λογία `abitlity, to find grounds, eristics, making empty words' (hell.; after the compp. in - λογέω, - λογία, cf. Schwyzer 726; on the meaning Zucker Philol. 82, 256ff.); with εὑρησί-λογος (Corn. a. o.).

Derivatives: derivv., also from the prefixcompp. (not noted): εὕρημα, later εὕρεμα (Schwyzer 523) `find' (Ion.-Att.), εὕρεσις `discovery' (Ion.-Att.; εὕρησις Apollod.; vgl. Fraenkel 1, 187 n. 1); εὕρετρα pl. `finder-reward' (Ulp.); εὑρετής `discoverer' (Att.) with f. εὑρετίς, - έτις (S. Fr. 101 [uncertain], D. S.); also εὑρέτρια (D. S., pap.; Chantraine Formation 104ff., Schwyzer 475); Εὑρέσιος surname of Ζεύς = Iupiter Inventor (D. H.; after Ίκέσιος a. o.); εὑρετικός `of a dicoverer' (Pl.), εὑρετός `to find' (Hp., S.).

Origin: XX [etym. unknown]

Etymology: The original confective meaning of εὑρίσκειν makes it probable, that the aorist will be archaic. Beside it was prob. an old perfect, seen in εὕρη-κα. After it came εὑρήσω; the latest member (beside εὑρεθῆναι) was the present εὑρίσκειν (quantity of the ι unknown), which was therefore an innovation. - The aorist εὑρεῖν can be a thematic root formation for *ἐ-Ϝρεῖν, with ἐ- as prothetic (which would mean * h₁w(e)r- ?) or from the ind. *ἔ-Ϝρ-ον (for *ἠ-Ϝρ-ον?); the aspiration secondary after ἑλεῖν a. o.? Or was it a reduplicated aorist *Ϝε-Ϝρεῖν with dissimilatory loss of the anlauting Ϝ- and secondary aspiration. - A reduplicated formation is found also in OIr. preterite -fúar `I found' \< IE *u̯e-u̯r- (pres. fo-gabim); the pass. - frīth `inventum est', which as IE *u̯rē-to- agrees with *Ϝρη- in - Ϝέ-Ϝρη-κα (\> εὕρηκα). Also in OCS ob-rětъ `I found' IE *u̯rē-t- has been supposed. - A full grade u̯er- is seen in Arm. gerem (sec. aorist gerec̣i) `take prisoner'. - Lit. in Schwyzer 709 n. 2. - See now Taillardat, RPh. 34 (1960) 232-235: from *su̯er-, with * sesure \> εὗρε (?).

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