Βριτόμαρτις: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Meaning: Surname of Artemis on Crete (inscr., Str.), also a goddess or nymphe on Crete, Dreros (Call. Dian. 190).<br />Other forms: Also [[Βριτόμαρπις]], <b class="b3">-μάρπεια</b> (Crete).<br />Derivatives: [[Βριτομάρτια]] n. pl. feast on Delos (inscr.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Acc. to Marinatos [[Ἀρχ]]. [[Δελτ]]. 9, 79ff. to [[Μάρπησσα]], name of a divinity in Aetolia. Wahrmann, Glotta 19, 170 thinks <b class="b3">-μαρπις</b> is the original form (but that [[Βριτόμαρτις]] is due to dissimilation is improbable); thus Guarducci, Inscr. Cr. 1, 35. Also [[Βρυτόμαρτις]] (Wahrmann l.c.). - Acc. to Solin. 11, 8 = [[dulcis virgo]], which seems confirmed by the gloss. Latte thinks that the gloss may have been invented secondarily to explain the name, but R. A. Brown, Pre-Greek Speech on Crete, 1985, 41 rightly objects that the <b class="b3">υ-</b>stem is not accounted for in this way. IE etymologies are useless. For [[π]]/[[τ]] Fur. 166 compares [[Πανοπεύς]] / [[Φανοτεύς]] see also his p. 389; a variation [[ι]]/[[υ]] is known from Pre-Greek.