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[222] ναῖον. The full form of the verb “νάω” is “σ-ναϝ-ω”, Aeol. “ναύω”. It is, together with “νέω” (i. e. “σ-νεϝ-ω”, cp. “ἔνευσα”), to be referred to root “νυ” or “σνυ”, Skt. snu, and snau-mi = ‘fluo.’ The quantity of the “α” in “νάω” is usually short in Homer, as in Od.6. 292; Il.21. 197, but the v. l. “νᾶον” gives “α_” in the imperf., as in the later epic.

The general word ἄγγεα is subdivided into σκαφίδες (“σκάπ-τω”, scoop), and γαυλοί, probably ‘round bowls;’ cp. “γόγγυλος”, and Skt. golas = ‘a ball.’

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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