Ἀπόλλων: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=-ωνος<br />Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: gods name (Il.)<br />Other forms: Voc. <b class="b3">῎Απολλον</b>.<br />Dialectal forms: In Myc. perh. ]<b class="b2">perjo[ \/A]pely[on-</b>\/, Ruijgh Études 56. [[Ἀπέλλων]] (Dor.), [[Ἀπείλων]] (Cypr.), [[Ἄπλουν]] (Thess.)<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Since J. Schmidt KZ 32, 327ff. explained from the voc. [[Ἄπολλον]], itself assimilated from [[Ἄπελλον]], cf. PN [[Ἀπελλίων]], [[Ἀπελλῆς]] etc. Cypr. [[Ἀπείλων]] points to <b class="b3">*Ἀπέλι̯ων</b> as the basis of Dor. [[Ἀπέλλων]]; Thess. [[Ἄπλουν]] perhaps from (Pre-Greek) Apel-on- (Ruijgh, ap. Beekes, below).- There is no IE etymology. One tried connection with <b class="b3">*ἄπελος</b> [[Kraft]], (in [[ὀλιγηπελίη]], [[quod vide|q.v.]]) and Germanic e. g. in awno. [[afi]] n. [[Kraft]] (Kretschmer Glotta 13, 242 A. 1; 15,191; 18, 205; 27, 32; 31, 102); also Illyrian PN, as Mag-aplinus, Aplo etc. (Krahe IF 57, 117f.). Criticism by Sommer IF 55, 176 A. 2 and Nilsson, s. below). - Improbable Solders Arch. f. Religionswiss. 32, 142ff. (to <b class="b3">ἀπέλλαι σηκοί</b> H., orig. "Steinfügung", from [[α]] copulativum and <b class="b3">πέλλα λίθος</b> H., because of the holy stones in the cult of Apollon; s. Kretschmer Glotta 27, 32). See also Bq. As Apollon was assumed to come from Asia Minor, one looked there for a connection. But Lyd. Pλdans Artimuk (s. on [[Ἄρτεμις]]) had initial <b class="b2">q-</b>. - Cf. Nilsson Gr. Rel. 1, 498ff. (esp. 523ff.); Chantraine L'Ant. class. 22, 68. - Burkert's idea that the name was derived from [[ἀμέλλαι]] is impossible (Beekes, Journ. Anc. Near Eastern Rel. 2, 2003). The name is prob. Pre-Greek, and Hitt. <b class="b2">]appaliunas</b>, in a treaty between Alaksandus of Wilusa and the Hittite king, may well be the Pre-Greek proto-form ([[Apalyun]]).