ἑκηβόλος: Difference between revisions

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|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: surname of Apollon, later also of Artemis (S.), and other things (Il.).<br />Other forms: Boeot. <b class="b3">Ϝεκαβόλος</b><br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">ἑκηβολίη</b>, <b class="b3">-α</b> (Ε 54 in plur.; Call., Str.) and denomin. <b class="b3">ἑκηβολέω</b> (Max. Tyr.). Also <b class="b3">ἑκηβελέτης</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Orph. Fr. 297, 11; cf. <b class="b3">ἑκατηβελέτης</b>).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [1135] <b class="b2">*u̯eḱ-</b> [[will]], [[want]]<br />Etymology: Metrical lengthening (which is necessary) for <b class="b3">*ἑκα-βόλος</b>, in antiquity to <b class="b3">ἑκάς</b> and interpreted as <b class="b2">shooting from afar, -hitting</b> (thus Belardi Doxa 3, 203f.), but like <b class="b3">ἑκά-εργος</b> rather to <b class="b3">ἑκών</b> as <b class="b2">at will hitting</b>; <b class="b3">ἑκηβολίη</b> prop. <b class="b2">sure of hitting</b>, but prob. already by the poet of E 54 taken as <b class="b2">shots from afar</b> (Trümpy Fachausdrücke 114; s. also Porzig Satzinhalte 204 and 210). Cf. [[ἑκάεργος]] and [[Ἐκάβη]].

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