Εἰλείθυια: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Meaning: Name of the birthgoddes(ses), often in plur (Ion.-Att.). Also [[Ἐλείθυια]] (Pi., inscr.), [[Εἰλήθυια]] (Call., Paus. a. o.), [[Ἐλεύθυια]] (Cret.), [[Ἐλευθίη]] (Paros), [[Ἐλευθία]], with assibilation [[Ἐλευσία]] (Lakon.); and other variants. Short form [[Ἐλευθώ]] (AP a. o.) and quite different [[Εἰλιόνεια]] (Plu. 2, 277b; correct?). On the forms Kalén Quaest. gramm. graecae 8 A. 1.<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[Ereutija]]<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">Εἰλειθυ(ι)αῖον</b> <b class="b2">Tempel des E.</b> (Delos), [[Ίλύθυιον]] (ibid.)<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Unknown. If. <b class="b3">'Ελεύθυια</b> is the old form, through dissimilation (or after <b class="b3">'Ωρείθυια</b>?; s. Kalén l. c.) [[Ἐλείθυια]] and, with metr. lengthening, [[Εἰλείθυια]]? Schulze Q. 260f. connects <b class="b3">ἐλευθ-</b> with [[ἐλεύσομαι]], [[ἤλυθον]]. Wackernagel too (s. Nilsson Gr. Rel. I2, 313) starts from [[Ἐλεύθυια]], which he considers because of the PN [[Ἐλευθέρνα]] as Pre-Greek. Also Güntert Kalypso 38 n. 3, 258 takes <b class="b3">Ε(ἰ)λείθυια</b> as Pre-Greek, which was adapted to <b class="b3">ἐλεύθ-ω</b> [[bring]] (Dor.; ) as [[who brings forth]] vgl. Lat. [[Fortuna]] : [[ferre]]).-Not with Theander (s. Nilsson l.c. n 11) to [[ελελευ]]. Diff. Vürtheim; s. the criticism by Kretschmer Glotta 16, 192; also Kerenyi Saeculum 1,241. Beekes, Studies Watkins 24f, shows that the suffix <b class="b3">-υια</b> is Pre-Greek.