ἄστυ: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=-εος<br />Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: [[town]] (Il.).<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[watu]] \/[[wastu]]\/, [[watuoko]] \/<b class="b2">wastuokhos\/</b>, cf. Arc. [[ἀστυόχος]]. Att. <b class="b3">-εως</b><br />Derivatives: [[ἀστικός]] [[of a town]] (A.) - [[ἀστεῖος]] id. and [[fine]], [[polite]] (Arist.). Curious [[ἄστυρον]] <b class="b2">(small) town</b> (Call.). [[ἀστός]] m. [[citizen]] (Il.) < <b class="b3">*ἀστϜ-ός</b>, cf. Thess. [[ϜαστϜός]].<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [1170] <b class="b2">*u(e)h₂stu</b> [[town]]<br />Etymology: [[ἄστυ]] < [[Ϝάστυ]] (Boeot. [[Ϝάστιος]] gen., Arc. <b class="b3">Ϝασστυ-όχω</b> (gen.), Thess. [[ϜαστϜός]]) resembles Skt. <b class="b2">vā́stu</b> n. [[dwelling place]] (younger [[vastu]] n. [[place]], [[thing]]), Messap. [[vastei]] (dat., Krahe Glotta 17, 100) and Toch. A <b class="b2">waṣt</b>, B [[ost]] [[house]]. They require <b class="b2">*ueh₂stu</b>, with [[ἀστυ]] < <b class="b2">*uh₂stu</b> (Beekes IF 93 (1988)24). Not to Skt. <b class="b2">vásati</b> [[dwell]], [[live]], s. [[ἄεσα]] (aor.).