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|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.pl.<br />Meaning: name of the inhabitants of Delphi (also attribut.) and of the town itself (Gildersleeve Syntax 51, Lundahl Namn och bygd 31 [1943] 42ff.) (h. Hom.)<br />Dialectal forms: Aeol. <b class="b3">Βελφοί</b>; sec. dialectforms <b class="b3">Δαλφοί</b>, <b class="b3">Δολφοί</b>, <b class="b3">Δερφοί</b> (Schwyzer 205, 213, 275)<br />Derivatives: Fem. <b class="b3">Δελφίς</b> [[delphian]] (Delph., S.), adj. <b class="b3">Δελφικός</b> (S.). <b class="b3">δέλφιξ</b> <b class="b2">table made after the Delphic threefoot</b> (Plu., EM), Lat. ([[mensa]]) [[Delphica]].<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [473] <b class="b2">*gʷelbʰu-</b> [[womb]]<br />Etymology: Acc. to Lundahl the place was originally <b class="b3">*Δελφύς</b> after the form of the land, from which <b class="b3">*ΔελφϜ-οί</b> (cf. <b class="b3">ἄστυ</b> : <b class="b3">*ἀστϜ-ός</b>) > <b class="b3">Δελφοί</b>, later used for the place. So from <b class="b3">δελφύς</b>.
|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.pl.<br />Meaning: name of the inhabitants of Delphi (also attribut.) and of the town itself (Gildersleeve Syntax 51, Lundahl Namn och bygd 31 [1943] 42ff.) (h. Hom.)<br />Dialectal forms: Aeol. <b class="b3">Βελφοί</b>; sec. dialectforms <b class="b3">Δαλφοί</b>, <b class="b3">Δολφοί</b>, <b class="b3">Δερφοί</b> (Schwyzer 205, 213, 275)<br />Derivatives: Fem. <b class="b3">Δελφίς</b> [[delphian]] (Delph., S.), adj. <b class="b3">Δελφικός</b> (S.). <b class="b3">δέλφιξ</b> <b class="b2">table made after the Delphic threefoot</b> (Plu., EM), Lat. ([[mensa]]) [[Delphica]].<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [473] <b class="b2">*gʷelbʰu-</b> [[womb]]<br />Etymology: Acc. to Lundahl the place was originally <b class="b3">*Δελφύς</b> after the form of the land, from which <b class="b3">*ΔελφϜ-οί</b> (cf. <b class="b3">ἄστυ</b> : <b class="b3">*ἀστϜ-ός</b>) > <b class="b3">Δελφοί</b>, later used for the place. So from <b class="b3">δελφύς</b>.
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|mdlsjtxt=<br /><b class="num">I.</b> [[Delphi]], a [[famous]] [[oracle]] of [[Apollo]] in [[Phocis]] at the [[foot]] of [[Parnassus]] (called [[Pytho]] by Hom. and Hdt.), Hhymn., Soph.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> the Delphians, Hdt.
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