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[Meaning] unharmed.[1]
Homer [writes]: "them he found no longer altogether unhurt nor without slaughter." He has combined two ideas, meaning some not unhurt, [i.e.] the wounded, and others not unslaughtered, [i.e.]the dead.[2]
*ph=ma [means] harm, from the [verb] ph/qw meaning panqa/nw.[3] The neuters ending in alpha[4] form compounds in four ways: either the compounds keep the same ending, like dh=ma, [giving] dia/dhma;[5] or they are derived from the genitive, like gra/mma, gra/mmatos, [giving] e)ggra/mmatos; or they change the ending to -os, like sto/ma, [giving] xruso/stomos; or they change the ending to -wn, like ei(=ma, [giving] leuxei/mwn and ph=ma, [giving] a)ph/mwn.[6]

Apêmona: ablabê. Homêros: tous d' heur' ouketi pampan apêmonas, oud' anolethrous. sullêptikôs pephraken, anti tou tous men mê apêmonas, tous tetrômenous, tous de mê anolethrous, tous anêirêmenous. pêma de hê blabê, para to pêthô to panthanô. ta de eis a lêgonta oudetera tetrachôs suntithetai. ê gar phulassousi to auto telos, hôs to dêma, diadêma: ê apo genikês paragontai, hôs gramma, grammatos, engrammatos: ê trepousi to telos eis os, hôs stoma, chrusostomos: ê trepousi to telos eis ôn, hôs to heima, leucheimôn, kai pêma, apêmôn.

The headword (which must be quoted from somewhere) is either accusative masculine/feminine singular or nominative/accusative neuter plural of a)ph/mwn.
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica (references at Photius alpha2411 Theodoridis); and cf. already alpha 3158.
[2] Homer, Iliad 13.761, with scholion.
[3] *ph/qw and panqa/nw are grammarians' hypothetical formations from the aorist e)/paqon (see web address 1 and web address 2 below), analogous to e.g. lh/qw and lanqa/nw from e)/laqon. The regular present tense is pa/sxw.
[4] All examples given are of nouns with the suffix -ma.
[5] The nouns de/ma, dh=ma, dia/dhma are all formed directly from the verb de/w 'bind'.
[6] Certain adjectives in -mwn, such as a)ph/mwn, are closely related to nouns in -ma (E. Risch, Wortbildung der homerische Sprache §22a(a), p.47).

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