ἀνήρ: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=ἀνδρός<br />Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[man]] (Il.).<br />Other forms: acc. <b class="b3">ἄνδρα</b> (Hom. also <b class="b3">ἀνέρα</b>, from where <b class="b3">ἀνέρος</b> etc.; on the inflection s. Schwyzer 568<b class="b3">β</b>). Atano s. below<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[adirijate]], <b class="b2">-pi</b> \/[[andriantei]], <b class="b2">-amphi</b>\/; see on compounds.<br />Compounds: As first member <b class="b3">ἀνδρο-</b>: <b class="b3">-κμητος</b>, <b class="b3">κτασία</b>; <b class="b3">ἀνδραποδον</b> s.v. - As second member <b class="b3">-ήνωρ</b>: <b class="b3">ῥηξ-</b>, <b class="b3">φθεισ-</b> (Hom.); in PN <b class="b2">'Aγ-</b>, Myc. [[Atano]] \/[[Antanor]]\/; fem. <b class="b3">ἀντι-άνειρα</b>, <b class="b3">κυδι-</b>. With <b class="b3">-ανδρος</b>: <b class="b3">ἄν-</b>, <b class="b3">ἕλ-</b>; PN esp. in Asia Minor and Cyprus: `<b class="b3">Ηγησ-</b>, <b class="b3">Τερπ-</b>; Hom. <b class="b3">Ἀλεξ-</b>. For the question whether this name is really Greek cf. Myc. [[arekasadara]] \/[[Aleksandra]]\/, <b class="b2">kesadara \/Kessandra\/</b> (note that Myc. <b class="b2">-e-</b> shows that this is a substr. name). So the forms are already Myc., but it is still not excluded that they are of non-Greek origin (s. Sommer Nominalkomp. 160ff.) - Kuiper MAWNed. NR. 14 : 5 thinks that <b class="b3">-ήνωρ</b> and <b class="b3">νῶρ-οψ</b> contain an old abstract <b class="b3">*ἄνερ</b>, <b class="b3">*ἄναρ</b> <b class="b2">vital energy</b> (IE <b class="b2">*h₂ner-</b>; also in Skt. <b class="b2">sū-nára-</b> etc.).<br />Derivatives: Demin. <b class="b3">ἀνδρίον</b> (Com.); from here, with unclear <b class="b3">ντ-</b>Suffix, <b class="b3">ἀνδριάς</b>, <b class="b3">-άντος</b> [[statue]] (Pi.), cf. Kretschmer Glotta 14, 84ff., Schwyzer 526 : 3 u. 4. <b class="b3">ἀνδρ(ε)ών</b> m. <b class="b2">mans apartment</b> (Hdt.). -Abstracts: <b class="b3">ἀνδρεία</b> (<b class="b3">-ηίη</b>, <b class="b3">-ία</b>) [[manliness]], [[courage]] (A.); <b class="b3">ἀνδροτής</b>, <b class="b3">-τῆτος</b> s.s.v. <b class="b3">ἠνορέη</b> <b class="b2">id.</b>, Ion. for Aeol. <b class="b3">ἀνορέα</b> (< <b class="b3">-ρία</b>), (Kretschmer Glotta 24, 245f.), from a compound (cf. <b class="b3">εὑανορία</b> Pi.), s. Leumann Hom. Wörter 109f., 123 m. Lit.; - Adjec.: <b class="b3">ἀνδρεῖος</b> (Ion. <b class="b3">ἀνδρήϊος</b>, cf. Chantr. Form. 52, Schwyzer 468 : 3) [[manly]], [[courageous]], <b class="b3">ἀνδρόμεος</b> [[human]] (Il.; <b class="b3">-μεος</b> = Skt. <b class="b2">-maya-</b>?).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [765] <b class="b2">*h₂ner-</b> [[man]]<br />Etymology: <b class="b3">ἀνήρ</b> is identical with Arm. [[ayr]], gen. [[arn]] [[man]], Skt. <b class="b2">nā́</b> (stem <b class="b2">nar-</b>), NPhryg. <b class="b3">αναρ</b>, Ital. <b class="b2">ner-</b> in Osc. <b class="b2">ner-um</b> [[virorum]], Lat. Sab. <b class="b2">Ner-ō</b> etc. (s. W.-Hofmann s. [[neriōsus]]), W. [[ner]] [[chief]] , Alb. [[njer]] [[man]]. - Not here Hitt. <b class="b2">innar-</b>, in <b class="b2">innarau̯atar</b> etwa <b class="b2">(Lebens)kraft, hoheitliche Macht</b>. - On <b class="b3">δρώψ</b> s.s.v. [[ἄνθρωπος]]. - Cf. [[νωρει]]̃.