εἶρος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: [[wool]] (Od.), also a plant name = [[γναφάλλιον]] (Ps.-DsC.; on the name Strömberg Pflanzennamen 105) and name of a fever (Hp. ap. Erot.; because of the warmth?, cf. Strömberg Wortstudien 74ff.).<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[wewesijeja]] \/[[werwes-ieia]]\/ [[women who work the wool]], from <b class="b2">wewesijo-</b> \/[[werwes-ios]]\/.<br />Compounds: As 1. member e. g. in <b class="b3">εἰρο-πόκος</b> [[with woollen fleece]], <b class="b3">-κόμος</b> [[preparing wool]] (both Il.). As 2. member in <b class="b3">εὔ-ειρος</b> (Hp., AP), Att. <b class="b3">εὔ-ερος</b> (with <b class="b3">εὑερ-ία</b> [Pl. Com.]) [[with beautiful wool]], <b class="b3">ἔπ-ερος</b> [[sheep]] (Schwyzer Ex. 644, 15, + 300a, Anatol. Aeolis); on the phonetics Schulze Kl. Schr. 367f., Forster [[Ἐπίχρυσος]] 41; on the 2. member (for <b class="b3">*εὑ-</b> resp. <b class="b3">*ἐπ-ειρής</b>) s. Sommer Nominalkomp. 112; on uncertain [[εὔειρας]] acc. pl. f. (S. Fr. 751, v. k.) Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 130.<br />Derivatives: [[εἴριον]] (ep. Ion. Il.), Att. Cret. [[ἔριον]] [[wool]], w. artificial abbreviation (Schwyzer 584 n. 6) [[ἔρι]] (hell. poet); from there [[εἰρίνεος]] [[of wool]], Att. etc. [[ἐρεοῦς]], [[ἐρειοῦς]] (for <b class="b3">-ιοῦς</b>) <b class="b2">id.</b>, w. cross [[ἐρεινοῦς]] (pap. V-VIp); - [[ἐρέα]] [[wool]] (hell.; after [[αἰγέα]] a. o.; Chantraine Formation 91); on the derivations Schwyzer 468.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [niew] <b class="b2">*u̯eru̯-os</b> [[wool]]<br />Etymology: Of the compared words note (after Schulze Q. 119f.) Lat. [[vervēx]], <b class="b2">-ēcis</b> [[wether]], a <b class="b2">k-</b>derivation of <b class="b2">u̯eru̯-</b>, seen also in [[εἶρος]], if from <b class="b3">*ἔρϜος</b> and ultimately from <b class="b3">*ϜέρϜ-ος</b>, a form now proven by Myc. (On <b class="b3">(Ϝ)[[ἀρήν]] s. v.) Not here OIr. [[ferb]] [[cow]]. - Connection with Hitt. <b class="b2">ešri-</b> is impossible.