δήνεα: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: n. pl.<br />Meaning: [[counsels]], [[plans]] (Il.; <b class="b3">δῆνος</b> H.).<br />Compounds: several compounds, mostly only lexically known: <b class="b3">ἀδηνής ἄκακος</b> H., EM (from where Semon. 7, 53 for text. <b class="b3">ἁληνής</b>), <b class="b3">ἀδηνέως</b> (Chios, H.), <b class="b3">ἀδανές ἀπρονόητον</b>, <b class="b3">ἀδηνείη ἀπειρία</b>, <b class="b3">πολυδηνέα πολύβουλον</b> H.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] <b class="b2">*densos</b> <b class="b2">counsel, high spiritual power[??]</b><br />Etymology: Brugmann Sächs. Ber. 1897, 187 (Grundr.2 2 : 1, 518) assumed <b class="b3">*δάνσεα</b> with analogical <b class="b3">α</b> from [[δαῆναι]], [[δαΐφρων]] (s. vv.) for <b class="b3">*δένσεα</b>, <b class="b3">*δένσος</b> = Skt. <b class="b2">dáṃsas-</b> n. <b class="b2">wonderful craft</b>, Av. <b class="b2">daŋhah-</b> n. [[adroitness]], IE <b class="b2">*dénsos</b> beside <b class="b2">*dn̥s-</b> in <b class="b3">δα-ῆναι</b>, <b class="b3">δα-ί-φρων</b>. But one would rather expext <b class="b3">*δάος</b>; see the objections in Bechtel Lex. 99 and Lasso de la Vega Emerita 22, 92, who also has semantic problems. (Wackernagel KZ 29, 137 prefers connection with <b class="b3">δήω</b>,which is not better.) - Ruijgh, Lingua 25 (1970) 319f. thinks the word is Myc., where <b class="b2">*dens-</b> would have given <b class="b3">δην-</b> (cf. <b class="b3">τελη-(Ϝ)εντ-</b> < <b class="b3">*τελεσ-Ϝεντ-</b>). Also Schmitt, Dicht. 161.