ἡνία: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: n. pl.<br />Meaning: [[reins]], [[bridles]] (Hom., Hes., Pi.)<br />Other forms: [[ἡνίαι]] f. pl., also <b class="b3">-ία</b> sg. (posthom.), Dor. <b class="b3">ἁν-</b> (<b class="b3">ἀν-</b>)<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[anija]] /[[anhiai]]/, dat. pl. [[anijapi]]. So the neut. is secondary?<br />Compounds: As 1. member e.g. in <b class="b3">ἡνί-οχος</b> "driver,",  [[charioteer]] (Il.; ep. also <b class="b3">-ῆα</b>, <b class="b3">-ῆες</b>, metr. conditioned) with <b class="b3">ἡνιοχ-ικός</b>, <b class="b3">-έω</b> (ep. <b class="b3">-εύω</b>), <b class="b3">-ησις</b>, <b class="b3">-εία</b>. As 2. member e. g. in <b class="b3">χρυσ-ήνιος</b> [[with goldenen reins]].<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [48] <b class="b2">*h₂ensia</b> [[rein]]<br />Etymology: As Lac. [[ἀνιοχίον]] = [[ἡνιοχέων]] (IG 5 [1], 213) seems to point to original psilosis (origin of the aspir. unknown), [[ἀνία]] can go back on <b class="b3">*ἀνσία</b> and be identical with a Celtic word for [[rein]], MIr. <b class="b2">ē(i)si</b> pl. (< <b class="b2">*ansio-</b>). One connects further some Lat., Balt. and Germ. expressions for [[grip]], [[handle]], Lat. [[ānsa]] = Lith. [[ąsà]], OWNo. [[æs]] f. (< <b class="b2">*ansiā</b>) [[hole for shoe-strings]] (because of the meaning very doubtful). - Walde Stand u. Aufgaben 153f. More in Bq., W.-Hofmann s. [[ānsa]], Puhvel Lang. 30, 456f.