# ναίω
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *nayyō, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *nes- (“to join with, to conceal oneself”), but Beekes considers this uncertain. See νέομαι (néomai, “to go or come back”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nǎi̯.ɔː/ → /ˈnɛ.o/ → /ˈne.o/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /nǎi̯.ɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈnɛ.o/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈnɛ.o/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈne.o/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈne.o/

### Verb

ναίω • (naíō)
* (present and imperfect only) to dwell, abide
** 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 794
** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 18
** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 288
** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 130
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.130
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.412
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.522
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.615
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.396
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.719
** 556 BCE – 468 BCE, Simonides, Fragmenta 58
** 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 338
** 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1105
** 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 1105
** (with accusative of place) to inhabit
*** 375 BCE – 275 BCE, Alexis 22
*** 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.794
*** 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 719
*** 412 BCE, Euripides, Helen 1584
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 20.288
*** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 8
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Fragments 123.10
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 7.5
*** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1375
*** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 1125
*** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 16.88
** (of places) to lie, be situated
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.626
*** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 598
* (causal, with accusative of place) to give one to dwell in; to make habitable, build
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.174
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Paean 5.36
** 7th–6th centuries BC, Homeric Hymn to Apollo 298
** (middle voice) to found
*** 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 4.275
** (passive voice) to be situated
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.400
** (with accusative of person) to let one dwell, to settle them
*** 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 4.567
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 5.71
* (middle and passive in active sense) to settle
** 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 2.747
** Dem.Bith. 6
** 100 CE – 300 CE, Dionysius Periegetes, Periegesis 264
** 100 CE – 300 CE, Dionysius Periegetes, Periegesis 349
** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 639
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 14.119
** 340 BCE – 285 BCE, Philitas, Collected Works 24
* Alternative form of νάω (náō)

#### Derived terms

* ἀποναίω (aponaíō)
* εἰσναίω (eisnaíō)
* ἐνναίω (ennaíō)
* κᾰτᾰναίω (kătănaíō)
* πᾰρᾰναίω (părănaíō)
* περῐναίω (perĭnaíō)
* σῠνναίω (sŭnnaíō)
* ὑποναίω (huponaíō)

#### Related terms

* νᾰετήρ (năetḗr)
* νᾰέτης (năétēs)
* ναέτωρ (naétōr)
* ναιετάω (naietáō)
* νᾱός (nāós)
* ναστήρ (nastḗr)
* νάστης (nástēs)

#### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ναίω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 994

#### Further reading

* Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 766
* “ναίω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ναίω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “ναίω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* ναίω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* ναίω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* “ναίω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* Chantraine, Pierre (1968–1980) “ναίω”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque (in French), Paris: Klincksieck

### Verb

ναίω • (naíō)
* Alternative form of νάω (náō)