μήτηρ: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[mother]] (Il.);<br />Other forms: Dor. <b class="b3">μάτηρ</b>; <b class="b3">μητρός</b>, <b class="b3">μητέρα</b> etc. (Schwyzer 567)<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[mate]].<br />Compounds: Many compp., e.g. <b class="b3">μητρο-πάτωρ</b> <b class="b2">mothers father, grandfather through mother</b> (Il.) and other kinship-names, <b class="b3">μητρό-πολις</b> f. <b class="b2">town, which is mother, mothertown</b> (Pi., Simon, IA.), <b class="b3">ἀ-μήτωρ</b> [[motherless]] (Hdt.), poet. also <b class="b2">Not-Mother</b> in <b class="b3">μήτηρ ἀμήτωρ</b> (S.); perh. <b class="b3">Δη-μήτηρ</b> (s. v.). On the compp. in gen. Sommer Nominalkomp. 147, 176f. a.o. (s. Index p. 208), Risch IF 59, 17f., 59 a. 261, Wackernagel Glotta 14, 38 (= Kl. Schr. 2, 846).<br />Derivatives: 1. Diminutiva: <b class="b3">ματρύλ(λ)α</b> f. "dear mother", <b class="b2">brothel-hostess</b> (Phryn., Eust.) with <b class="b3">ματρυλ-εῖον</b> [[brothel]] (Din., Men.); Leumann Glotta 32,224 (= Kl. Schr. 250), Björck Alpha impurum 67; <b class="b3">μητράριον</b> = [[matercula]] (Gloss.). -- 2. <b class="b3">μήτρα</b>, ion. <b class="b3">-η</b> f. [[uterus]], [[womb]] (IA.), metaph. [[hardwood]], [[marrow]] (Thphr.; Strömberg Theophrastea 122 ff.), also <b class="b2">queen bee</b> (Arist.; Wackernagel Festgabe Kaegi 55 [= Kl. Schr. 1, 483] and Sommer Nominalkomp. 147 n. 4); <b class="b3">μητρίδιος</b> "with womb", <b class="b2">rich in seeds</b> (Ar. Lys. 549; after <b class="b3">κουρίδιος</b>, <b class="b3">νυμφίδιος</b>?). -- 3. <b class="b3">μητρίς</b> (sc. <b class="b3">γῆ</b>) f. <b class="b2">land of the mother</b> (Pherecr.; after <b class="b3">πατρίς</b>). -- 4. <b class="b3">μητρικός</b> <b class="b2">regarding the mother</b> (Arist., hell. inscr., pap.; Wackernagel l.c. 5 3 f. [= 481 f.]). -- 5. <b class="b3">μητρό-θεν</b> (Dor. <b class="b3">μα-</b>) <b class="b2">from mothers side</b> (Pi.). -- 6. Denomin. verbs: <b class="b3">μητρ-ιάζω</b> <b class="b2">honour the (Great) Mother</b> (Poll.; after <b class="b3">θυσι-άζω</b>, cf. Schwyzer 735), <b class="b3">-ίζω</b> <b class="b2">belong to the (Great) Mother</b> (Iamb.), <b class="b3">-άζω</b> <b class="b2">resemble the mother</b> (Gloss.). -- 7. PN <b class="b3">Μητρείς</b> (Schulze Kl. Schr. 419), <b class="b3">Μᾶτρυς</b> (Leumann Glotta 32, 220 [= Kl. Schr. 246]). -- 8. On <b class="b3">μήτρως</b> and <b class="b3">μητρυιά</b> s. vv. -- On <b class="b3">μήτηρ</b> and derivv. Chantraine REGr. 59--60, 238ff.; on familiar replacing words (<b class="b3">μαῖα</b> a.o.) id. Etudes 16.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [700] <b class="b2">*meh₂ter</b> [[mother]]<br />Etymology: Old inherited word, which may go back on a Lallwort [[mā]] (s. <b class="b3">μᾶ</b>; but this is perh. rejected by the laryngeal <b class="b2">*meh₂-</b>) for [[mother]], retained everywhere except in Hitt. (which has [[annaš]]), e.g. Skt. <b class="b2">mātár-</b>, Lat. [[māter]], Lith. <b class="b2">mótė</b> [[mother]] (dial.), often (also) [[woman]], [[wife]], Germ., e.g. OHG [[muoter]]. More forms Pok. 700.