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|etymtx=<b class="b3">-τερος</b> and -τρος<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: the Greek mother goddess (Il.). See further Schwyzer 567f., Sommer Nominalkomp. 147,<br />Dialectal forms: Though one might expect the name in Myc., it happens not to be found. [[Δαμάτηρ]] (Dor. etc.), also [[Δωμάτηρ]], [[Δαμμάτερι]] (Thess.),<br />Derivatives: [[Δημήτριος]] <b class="b2">belonging to D.</b> (A.), also as PN, from which the months name [[Δημητριών]] (Attica); [[Δημητρίεια]] pl. [[feast for Demeter]] (Samos IVa; after [[Ἀσκληπίεια]] a.o.), [[Δημήτρια]] pl. also [[feast for Demetrios]]; [[Δημητριασταί]] N. of the worshippers of Demeter (Ephesos; cf. [[Ἀπολλωνιασταί]] etc.); [[Δημητριακός]] [[belonging to Demeter or Demetrios]] (D. S.); [[Δημήτρειοι]] pl. name of the dead (Plu.). - Denomin. <b class="b3">δαματρίζειν τὸ συνάγειν τὸν Δημητριακὸν καρπόν</b>. [[Κύπριοι]] H. - Short form [[Δηώ]] (h. Cer. etc.) with <b class="b3">Δηῳ̃ος</b> and [[Δηωΐνη]] <b class="b2">daughter of D.</b>.<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: By Kretschmer Wien. Stud. 24, 523ff., Glotta 17, 240 taken as "Mother Earth", from [[δᾶ]], a kind of [[Lallwort]], perhaps Pre-Greek [[Earth]], and [[μάτηρ]]. There is however, no indication that [[δᾶ]] (s.v.) means [[earth]] (though it has also been assumed in the name Poseidon). Nach Ehrlich Betonung 62ff. (with Fraenkel Lexis 3, 50ff.), from <b class="b3">&#42;Δασ-μάτηρ</b>, from IE <b class="b2">&#42;dm̥s-</b>, gen. of <b class="b2">&#42;dem-</b> [[house]] (cf. [[δεσπότης]]); rightly rejected by Kretschmer Glotta 6, 294. Pisani IF 53, 28ff. and Georgiev Urgriechen und Illyrier (Sofia 1937) 9ff., 20ff. consider the word, like [[Δαμία]], [[Δμία]] etc. as Illyrian and compare Alb. [[dhe]] [[earth]] (s. [[χθών]]); rejected by Kretschmer Glotta 27, 31. Acc. to Carnoy Mélanges Bidez 71ff. <b class="b3">Δη-</b> is only a different development of [[γῆ]]. Cf. Fraenkel Glotta 3, 58f. (also on [[Δαμία]], [[Μνία]]); diff. on these words (to [[δόμος]] etc.) Danielsson Eranos 1, 79f. - Cf. Messap. [[damatura]], prob. name of a goddess (Krahe Sprache der Illyr. 1, 82); the Mess. word must be an adaptation of the Greek name; cf. [[Δειπάτυρος]] s. [[Ζεύς]]). - Heubeck, Praegraeca 75-8 starts from `Phryg.' <b class="b3">Γδαν-μαυα</b>\/[[Γδανμαα]], and sees in the first element a cognate of Gr. [[χθών]]; he suggests that the form <b class="b3">Δω(μ-</b>) goes back on <b class="b2">&#42;ghdhon-</b>. However, he connects the whole with his Minoan-Minyan hypothesis (a separate IE language), which is unconvincing. - On Demeter Nilsson Gr. Rel. 1, 456ff.