χανδάνω

Ancient Greek

Etymology

For *χαδάνω (*khadánō) (with -χανδ- (-khand-) imported from other forms of the paradigm),[1] from a nasal-infixed and -suffixed present from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (to seize, grasp, take). Compare λαμβάνω (lambánō). Cognate with Latin prehendō, English get, Albanian gjej.

Pronunciation

 

Verb

χᾰνδᾰ́νω • (khăndắnō) (chiefly Epic)

  1. (transitive) to take in, hold, comprise, contain
  2. (figuratively, intransitive) to be capable [with infinitive ‘of doing’]

Inflection

References

  1. ^ Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, § 454A.1
  • χανδάνω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • χανδάνω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • χανδάνω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • χανδάνω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • χανδάνω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter