μήτρως: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">male relative of the mother, uncle, grandfather</b> (Il.).<br />Other forms: Dor. <b class="b3">μάτρως</b>, <b class="b3">-ωος</b> a. <b class="b3">-ω</b> (further forms in Schwyzer 480 and in LSJ).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">μητρώϊος</b>, <b class="b3">-ῳ̃ος</b> (Dor. <b class="b3">μα-</b>) prop. <b class="b2">belonging to the μήτρωες, i.e. to mothers family</b> (τ 410), then directly referring to <b class="b3">μήτηρ</b> <b class="b2">what belongs to the mother, maternal</b> (A.); <b class="b3">τὸ Μητρῳ̃ον</b> (sc. <b class="b3">ἱερόν</b>) [[the temple of the Great Mother Cybele]], in Athens used as state archive (Att.); <b class="b3">τὰ Μητρῳ̃α</b> (sc. <b class="b3">ἱερά</b>) <b class="b2">the temple-service of Cybele</b> (D. H.); with <b class="b3">μητρῳακός</b> [[belonging to the service of Cybele]] and <b class="b3">μητρῴζω</b> <b class="b2">celebrate the Cybele-feasts</b> (sp.) ; <b class="b3">μητρωϊκός</b> = <b class="b3">μητρικός</b> (Delos IIa). -- Side form <b class="b3">μήτρων</b> (Dor. <b class="b3">μά-</b>), <b class="b3">-ωνος</b> m. (Asia Minor inscr.; originating from the acc. <b class="b3">μήτρων</b>). -- <b class="b3">μητρυιά</b>, Dor. <b class="b3">μα-</b>, ion. <b class="b3">-ιή</b> f. <b class="b2">step-mother</b> (Il.) with <b class="b3">μητρυι-ώδης</b> <b class="b2">step-motherly</b> (Plu.), <b class="b3">-άζω</b> <b class="b2">act as step-moher</b> (Gloss.); as joking innovation <b class="b3">μητρυιός</b> m. [[stepfather]] (Theopomp. Com., Hyp.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [700] <b class="b2">*meh₂ter</b> [[mother]], <b class="b2">*meh₂tr-ou-s</b> [[relative of the mother]]<br />Etymology: If one connects, acc. to the communis opinio, <b class="b3">μητρυιά</b> with <b class="b3">μήτρως</b>, for which there is in fact no decisive evidence, we must start from a long <b class="b2">-ōu-</b> ( > [[ō]]), of which <b class="b3">-υ-</b> in <b class="b3">μητρυιά</b> would be the zero grade (cf. Schwyzer 479 f.). With <b class="b3">μητρυιά</b> (prob. for older <b class="b3">*μήτρυια</b>, gen. <b class="b3">-υιᾶς</b>; Wackernagel KZ 33, 574 [= Kl. Schr. 2, 1207] n. l, Schwyzer 469 w. n. 8) cf. the close Armenian form [[mawru]], gen. [[mawrui]] (< <b class="b2">*mātruu̯i-</b>) <b class="b2">stepmother, mother-in-law</b>, perhaps also the far off Westgermanic form OE [[modrige]] [[sisters mother]] (PGm. <b class="b2">*mōdruu̯i̯ōn-</b> < IE <b class="b2">*mātruu̯i̯ā</b>?) a direct correspondence; the formation must then be from pre-Greek. A hypothesis on the origin (after the old word for <b class="b2">mother-in-law</b>, Lat. [[socrus]] = Gr. <b class="b3">*ἑκρύς</b> ?; s. <b class="b3">ἑκυρός</b>, <b class="b3">-ά</b>) by Wackernagel Festgabe Kaegi 44 (= Kl. Schr. 1, 472) n. 2. -- Cf. the lit. on [[μήτηρ]]. Cf. Kuiper, Notes 56ff.