κέλευθος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: f., pl. also <b class="b3">-α</b> n. (on the fem. gender Schwyzer-Debrunner 34 n. 2, on the neutr. plur. Egli Heteroklisie 125)<br />Meaning: [[road]], [[path]], [[course]], [[journey]] (Il., also IG 5 [2] 3, 23, Tegea IVa)<br />Compounds: rarely as 1. member, e. g. <b class="b3">κελευθο-ποιός</b> <b class="b2">making a path</b> (A.), more often as 2. member, e. g. <b class="b3">ἱππο-κέλευθος</b> <b class="b2">making the road on a chariot, chariot-fighter</b> (Il., of Patroklos); <b class="b3">ἀκόλουθος</b> [[following]], [[attending on]], often subst, <b class="b3">α</b> privativum (the double ablaut is surprising; assim.from <b class="b3">*ἀκολευθ-</b>?)<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">κελεύθεια</b> f. <b class="b2">goddess of the road</b>, surname of Athena in Sparta (Paus. 3, 12, 4; after the nouns in <b class="b3">-εια</b>), <b class="b3">κελευθείας τὰς ἐνοδίους δαίμονας</b> H.; <b class="b3">κελευθήτης</b> [[voyager]] (AP 6, 120), after <b class="b3">ἀγυιήτης</b>, <b class="b3">πολιήτης</b> a. o.; a change to the more usual <b class="b3">-ίτης</b> (e. g. proposed by Redard Les noms grecs en <b class="b3">-της</b> 33) is unnecessary (in spite of <b class="b3">ὁδίτης</b>). - On <b class="b3">κέλευθος</b> a. rel. in gen.. Ruijgh L'élément achéen 123f.<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: The difficulty of finding an example for the <b class="b3">θ-</b>suffix, has resulted in many attempts to cennect <b class="b3">κέλευθος</b> with <b class="b3">ἐλευθ-</b> in <b class="b3">ἐλεύσομαι</b> etc. Thus Brugmann Sächs. Ber. 1897, 28 (<b class="b3">κέλευθος</b> contaminated from <b class="b3">κελεύειν</b> and <b class="b3">ἐλευθ-</b>), Pisani Rend. Acc. Lincei 6 : 5, 9 (from <b class="b3">κε-</b> in <b class="b3">κεῖνος</b> a. o. and <b class="b3">ἐλευθ-</b>; against this Kretschmer Glotta 20, 253), id. Ist. Lomb. 77, 552f. (from <b class="b3">*κελο-λευθος</b>; from <b class="b3">κέλομαι</b>). Diff., not better, Fraenkel Mélanges Boisacq 1, 373ff.: <b class="b3">κέλευθος</b> reshaped after <b class="b3">κέλομαι</b> for <b class="b3">*κλεῦθος</b> (to <b class="b3">κλύω</b>, s. v.). Direct connection with <b class="b3">κελεύειν</b> suggested by Specht Ursprung 254 and 280, whereby he identifies, not very probably, the suffix <b class="b3">θ</b> as IE. [[th]] in Skt. <b class="b2">pánthāḥ</b> [[road]] (see on <b class="b3">πόντος</b>) and in Lith. <b class="b2">keliū́ta</b> [[road]]. The last is clearly built on <b class="b2">kẽli-as</b> [[road]], [[street]], [[course]] and has no direct connection with <b class="b3">κέλευθος</b>; cf. Fraenkel KZ 72, 177. Nor can [[au]] in the denomin. <b class="b2">keli-áuti</b> [[voyage]], [[travel]] and <b class="b3">ευ</b> in <b class="b3">κέλευθος</b> be identified (as Fraenkel Lit. et. Wb. s. <b class="b2">kẽlias</b>).