Talk:κῦμα

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Moved from cyma: Ancient Greek derivations and relations of κῦμα (kûma) include κυμαίνω (kumaínō, I rise in waves”, “I swell”, “I seethe”, “I toss on the waves”, “I am pregnant), κύμανσις (kúmansis, undulation), κυμάς (kumás, pregnant woman), κυματηδόν (kumatēdón, like a wave), κυματηρός (kumatērós), κυματίας (kumatías, surging”, “billowy”; “causing waves”, “stormy), κυματίζομαι (kumatízomai, I am agitated by the waves”, “I toss about like waves), κυμάτιον (kumátion, a small cyma”, “the volute of the Ionic capital), κυματοαγής (kumatoagḗs, breaking like waves), κυματοβόλος (kumatobólos, throwing up waves), κυματοδρομέω (kumatodroméō), κυματοδρόμος (kumatodrómos, running over the waves), κυματοειδής (kumatoeidḗs, like waves: stormy), κυματόεις (kumatóeis) (kūmatoeis, poetic for κυματίας (kumatías)), κυματολήγη (kumatolḗgē, wave-stiller), κυματοπλήξ (kumatoplḗx, wavebeaten”, of fish “tossed by the waves), κυματότροφος (kumatótrophos, fed from the sea), κυματοφθόρος (kumatophthóros, plundering by sea), κυματοφορτίδες (kumatophortídes), κυματόω (kumatóō) (kūmatoō; of the wind “I cover with waves”; in passive constructions, of the land “I am swept by the sea”; in passive constructions, of the sea and, metaphorically, of the air when agitated by the voice “I rise in waves”), κυματωγή (kumatōgḗ, place where the waves break”, “beach), κυματώδης (kumatṓdēs, on which the waves break”, “billowy), κυμάτωσις (kumátōsis) (kūmatōsis; of the tide and, metaphorically, of life “flow”), κυμοδέγμων (kumodégmōn, receiving or meeting the waves), κυμοδόκη (kumodókē, wave-receiver), κυμοθαλής (kumothalḗs) (kūmothalēs; of Poseidon “abounding with waves”), κυμοθόη (kumothóē, wave-swift), κυμόκτυπος (kumóktupos, wave-sounding), κυμοπλήξ (kumoplḗx) (kūmoplēx; a by-form of κυματοπλήξ (kumatoplḗx)), κυμοπόλεια (kumopóleia, wave-walker), κυμορρόον (kumorrhóon), κυμορρώξ (kumorrhṓx, breaking the waves), κυμοτόκος (kumotókos, of child-birth), κυμοτόμος (kumotómos, wave-cleaving), and Κυμώ (Kumṓ, Wavy (a Nereid)).