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|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[eighth]] (Il.).<br />Other forms: <b class="b3">ὀγδόατος</b> (Il.; after <b class="b3">τέτρατος</b> etc.).<br />Compounds: As 1. member prob. in <b class="b3">ὀγδόδιον θυσία παρ</b>' <b class="b3">Ἀθηναίοις τελουμένη Θησεῖ</b> H., prob. prop. of a sacrifice brought "on the eighth day"; cf. <b class="b3">αὑτόδιον</b> w. lit. and Sommer Nominalkomp. 47 n. 1.<br />Derivatives: Deriv. <b class="b3">ὀγδοαῖος</b> <b class="b2">appearing on the eighth day</b> (Plb., Plu.). On <b class="b3">ὀγδοάς</b>, <b class="b3">-ήκοντα</b> etc. s. [[ὀκτώ]].<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [775] <b class="b2">*h₃eḱt-</b> [[eight]].<br />Etymology: From <b class="b3">*ὄγδοϜος</b> (oldcor. [<b class="b3">ὀγ]δόϜα</b>), perhaps to <b class="b3">ὀκτώ</b> after the example of <b class="b3">ἑπτά</b> : [[ἕβδομος]] (s. v.). Sommer Zum Zahlwort 24f. considers also the possibility of a regressive voice-assimilation in <b class="b2">*oḱtu̯-os</b> as in <b class="b3">ἕβδομος</b> from <b class="b2">*septm-os</b>, both with anaptyctic <b class="b3">-ο-</b>. A zero-grade <b class="b2">-u-</b>, <b class="b2">-u̯-</b> beside the long diphthongue in <b class="b3">ὀκτώ</b> (IE <b class="b2">*oktōu̯</b>) has also been supposed in Oldphryg. <b class="b3">οτυϜοι Ϝετει</b> <b class="b2">in the eighth year</b> and Goth. [[ahtuda]] <b class="b3">ὄγδοος</b>'. Diphthonges are also found in OHG <b class="b2">ahtow-i</b> pl. [[eighth]] as office and in the lengthened grade Lat. [[octāvus]] (with unclear [[ā]]). Details in Schwyzer 595 w. n. 3, Sommer l.c., W.-Hofmann s. [[octō]]. Cf. Rix, Hist. Gr. 172: <b class="b2">*(h₃)eḱth₃u-h₂o-</b>.

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