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> [[making a path]] (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); [[ἀκόλουθος]] [[following]], [[attending on]], often subst, [[α]] privativum (the double ablaut is surprising; assim.from <b class="b3">*ἀκολευθ-</b>?)<br />Derivatives: [[κελεύθεια]] f. [[goddess of the road]], 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.; [[κελευθήτης]] [[voyager]] (AP 6, 120), after [[ἀγυιήτης]], [[πολιήτης]] 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 [[ὁδίτης]]). - On [[κέλευθος]] 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 [[κέλευθος]] with <b class="b3">ἐλευθ-</b> in [[ἐλεύσομαι]] etc. Thus Brugmann Sächs. Ber. 1897, 28 ([[κέλευθος]] contaminated from [[κελεύειν]] and <b class="b3">ἐλευθ-</b>), Pisani Rend. Acc. Lincei 6 : 5, 9 (from <b class="b3">κε-</b> in [[κεῖνος]] 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 [[κέλομαι]]). Diff., not better, Fraenkel Mélanges Boisacq 1, 373ff.: [[κέλευθος]] reshaped after [[κέλομαι]] for <b class="b3">*κλεῦθος</b> (to [[κλύω]], s. v.). Direct connection with [[κελεύειν]] suggested by Specht Ursprung 254 and 280, whereby he identifies, not very probably, the suffix [[θ]] as IE. [[th]] in Skt. <b class="b2">pánthāḥ</b> [[road]] (see on [[πόντος]]) 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 [[κέλευθος]]; cf. Fraenkel KZ 72, 177. Nor can [[au]] in the denomin. <b class="b2">keli-áuti</b> [[voyage]], [[travel]] and [[ευ]] in [[κέλευθος]] be identified (as Fraenkel Lit. et. Wb. s. <b class="b2">kẽlias</b>).