Πελασγοί
προγράψαντες οὖν τά τε θεωρήματα καὶ τὰ ἐπιτάγματα τὰ χρεῖαν ἔχοντα εἰς τὰς ἀποδείξιας αὐτῶν μετὰ ταῦτα γραψοῦμές τοι τὰ προκείμενα → having therefore written at the beginning the theorems and the postulates that are necessary for their proofs, we will then write out for you the propositions
French (Bailly abrégé)
ῶν (οἱ) :
1 les Pélasges, anciens habitants de la Grèce, de l’Asie Mineure, de la Crète;
2 les Grecs en gén.
Étymologie: DELG l’étym. de Kretschmer est inacceptable.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
Πελασγοί: οἱ пеласги
1) древнейшие жители Эллады, обитавшие на Балканском п-ове, М. Азии и на островах Hom.;
2) Eur. = Ἓλληνες.
Frisk Etymological English
Grammatical information: m. pl.
Meaning: name of an (the) older Pre-Greek population of the Agaean area, sg. -ός Pelasgian (Il.).
Derivatives: Πελασγ-ικός Pelasgian (Il., Hdt.), -ιος id. (A., E.), f. -ίς (Hdt., A. R.), -ιάς (Call.); -ίη f. = Ἐλλάς (Hdt.); -ιῶται m. pl., -ιῶτις f. sg. inhabitants of the Πελασγιῶτις f. landscape in southern Thessalia (Hdt.). -- Πελαργικὸν τεῖχος n. name of the ground at the northerly river of the Acropolis in Athens (Hdt., Att.) with old transition of σγ (= zg) to ργ (Schwyzer 218)?
Origin: XX [etym. unknown]
Etymology: No etymology. Widely accepted was the hypothesis of Kretschmer (first Glotta 1, 16 f.) which explained Πελασγοί from *Πελαγσ-κοί as "inhabitant of flat land", from πέλαγος in orig. sense of plain. This semantically uncertain, formally contestable interpretation was also several times doubted; s. F. Lochner-Hüttenbach Die Pelasger (Arb. Inst. Sprachw. 6. Wien 1960) 143ff. with referee of also other proposals and extensive treatment of the whole problem (on Πελαργικόν ibd. 116 w. n. 74); cf. the dicussion by Kronassers, Sprache 7, 218ff.
