A.“νᾷ” S.Fr.5, part. “νῶντας” Phot.:—flow, “ἐν δὲ κρήνη νάει” Od.6.292; “καὶ φρείατα μακρὰ νάουσιν” Il. 21.197; ὄφρ᾽ ἂν ὕδωρ τε νάῃ Epigr. ap. Pl.Phdr.264d; οἴνῳ Ἁχελῷος ἆρα νᾷ S.l.c.; ὕδατι νᾶε was running with . . , A.R.1.1146; “νᾶεν φόνῳ” Call.Dian.224:—Pass., to be watered, “να_ομένοισι τόποις” Nic.Fr. 74.58. [α^ in Hom. and presupposed by νᾷ, νῶντας, cf. ἀέναος: α_ v.l. in Od.9.222, always in late Ep. exc. Euph.23; ναῖον (so Aristarch. and some codd.) δ᾽ ὀρῷ ἄγγεα πάντα is prob. correct in Od.l.c., cf. ἔναιεν ἐν ἅλμῃ (with pun on ναίω dwell) Matro Conv.77, and ναιομένοισι (νεομ- codd.) shd. perh. be read in Nic. l.c.] (Cf. ἔννυθεν, ναύω, νόα, Skt. snaúti (pf. part. Pass. snutás) 'drip', MIr. snuadh 'river', etc.: νάω [α^] from sn[acaron]w-w, ναίω and νάω [α_] from sn[acaron]w-yw.）
νάω , only pres. and impf., Att. contr.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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