Ancient Greek

Verb

ἄρνυμαι • ‎(árnumai)

1. To get, win, gain, achieve, receive (usually in positive sense)
   1. (present, imperfect) to strive for, try to get
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4–5

        πολλὰ δ’ ὅ γ’ ἐν πόντῳ πάθεν ἄλγεα ὃν κατὰ θῡμόν,
        ἀρνύμενος ἥν τε ψῡχὴν καὶ νόστον ἑταίρων.

        [Odysseus] suffered many sorrows in his heart on the sea,
        striving for his life and his comrades' homecoming.

2. To take up, bear, carry

Inflection

References

• ἄρνυμαι in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄρνυμαι in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἄρνυμαι in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἄρνυμαι» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἄρνυμαι in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἄρνυμαι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 136
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010), “aṙnum”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 112