Εἰλείθυια: Difference between revisions

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|etymtx=Meaning: Name of the birthgoddes(ses), often in plur (Ion.-Att.). Also <b class="b3">Ἐλείθυια</b> (Pi., inscr.), <b class="b3">Εἰλήθυια</b> (Call., Paus. a. o.), <b class="b3">Ἐλεύθυια</b> (Cret.), <b class="b3">Ἐλευθίη</b> (Paros), <b class="b3">Ἐλευθία</b>, with assibilation <b class="b3">Ἐλευσία</b> (Lakon.); and other variants. Short form <b class="b3">Ἐλευθώ</b> (AP a. o.) and quite different <b class="b3">Εἰλιόνεια</b> (Plu. 2, 277b; correct?). On the forms Kalén Quaest. gramm. graecae 8 A. 1.<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[Ereutija]]<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">Εἰλειθυ(ι)αῖον</b> <b class="b2">Tempel des E.</b> (Delos), <b class="b3">Ίλύθυιον</b> (ibid.)<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Unknown. If. <b class="b3">'Ελεύθυια</b> is the old form, through dissimilation (or after <b class="b3">'Ωρείθυια</b>?; s. Kalén l. c.) <b class="b3">Ἐλείθυια</b> and, with metr. lengthening, <b class="b3">Εἰλείθυια</b>? Schulze Q. 260f. connects <b class="b3">ἐλευθ-</b> with <b class="b3">ἐλεύσομαι</b>, <b class="b3">ἤλυθον</b>. Wackernagel too (s. Nilsson Gr. Rel. I2, 313) starts from <b class="b3">Ἐλεύθυια</b>, which he considers because of the PN <b class="b3">Ἐλευθέρνα</b> as Pre-Greek. Also Güntert Kalypso 38 n. 3, 258 takes <b class="b3">Ε(ἰ)λείθυια</b> as Pre-Greek, which was adapted to <b class="b3">ἐλεύθ-ω</b> [[bring]] (Dor.; ) as <b class="b2">who brings forth</b> vgl. Lat. [[Fortuna]] : [[ferre]]).-Not with Theander (s. Nilsson l.c. n 11) to <b class="b3">ελελευ</b>. Diff. Vürtheim; s. the criticism by Kretschmer Glotta 16, 192; also Kerenyi Saeculum 1,241. Beekes, Studies Watkins 24f, shows that the suffix <b class="b3">-υια</b> is Pre-Greek.

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