usfilm-ei

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `to vibrate, to shake', pass. `to tremble' (Il.; Trümpy Fachausdrücke 130 ff., Ruijgh L'élém. ach. 8 1 f.);

Other forms: aor. - ίξαι, - ιχθῆναι.

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]

Etymology: Denominative formation in - ίζω (after ἐλελίζω, στυφελίζω, δνοπαλίζω a.o. with comparable meaning; Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 340) from an unknown noun, approx. *πέλεμα v.t., which may have cognates in Germ., a.o. in the compp. Goth. us-film-a `frightened, appalled' (with usfilm-ei `fright, horror'), OWNo. felms-fullr `full of frightening', which presuppose a noun PGm. * felma- `fright'. If one distinguishes an m-suffix one could connect the group of πάλλω (since Fick KZ 19, 262; further s. WP. 2, 52f.). Also Arm. al̃m-uk `confusion, unrest' (: παλμ-ός, πελεμ-ίζω) can be connected (Adjarian MSL 20, 160). -- Here may also belong πόλεμος; s.v. Furnée 151 (with n. 42) calls πελεμ- entschieden ungriechisch; the suffix - εμ- would be Pre-Greek.

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