lýō
lýō
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁ (“to cut off, separate, free”), but *lh₁u- after Beekes. Cognates include Latin luō (“expiate, pay”), Sanskrit लून (lūna, “sever, cut forth, destroy, annihilate”), English loose and possibly Old Armenian լուծանեմ (lucanem)and Albanian lirë.
According to Beekes the stem vowel was originally short (λῠ-), to be lengthened only later in Attic (and sometimes in Homer; λῡ-) due to the influence of a laryngeal. The upsilon remains short (ῠ) before temporal endings beginning with <κ, θ, μ> and at all paragoga (derivatives). But compounds' prosody, as for λῡ́ω.
Derivatives, from stems λῠσ-, λῠσῐ- (compounds with λῡσῐ-), λῠτ-.
Unrelated to κωλῡ́ω (kōlū́ō, “prevent”), ὄλλῡμῐ (óllūmi, “destroy, lose”) or λύσσᾰ (lússa, “rage”).
Pronunciation
Verb
λῡ́ω • (lū́ō) first-singular present indicative