ἀνήρ: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=ἀνδρός<br />Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[man]] (Il.).<br />Other forms: acc. [[ἄνδρα]] (Hom. also [[ἀνέρα]], from where [[ἀνέρος]] etc.; on the inflection s. Schwyzer 568[[β]]). 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>, [[κτασία]]; [[ἀνδραποδον]] 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> [[vital energy]] (IE <b class="b2">*h₂ner-</b>; also in Skt. <b class="b2">sū-nára-</b> etc.).<br />Derivatives: Demin. [[ἀνδρίον]] (Com.); from here, with unclear <b class="b3">ντ-</b>Suffix, [[ἀνδριάς]], <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. [[mans apartment]] (Hdt.). -Abstracts: [[ἀνδρεία]] (<b class="b3">-ηίη</b>, <b class="b3">-ία</b>) [[manliness]], [[courage]] (A.); [[ἀνδροτής]], <b class="b3">-τῆτος</b> s.s.v. [[ἠνορέη]] <b class="b2">id.</b>, Ion. for Aeol. [[ἀνορέα]] (< <b class="b3">-ρία</b>), (Kretschmer Glotta 24, 245f.), from a compound (cf. [[εὑανορία]] Pi.), s. Leumann Hom. Wörter 109f., 123 m. Lit.; - Adjec.: [[ἀνδρεῖος]] (Ion. [[ἀνδρήϊος]], cf. Chantr. Form. 52, Schwyzer 468 : 3) [[manly]], [[courageous]], [[ἀνδρόμεος]] [[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: [[ἀνήρ]] is identical with Arm. [[ayr]], gen. [[arn]] [[man]], Skt. <b class="b2">nā́</b> (stem <b class="b2">nar-</b>), NPhryg. [[αναρ]], Ital. <b class="b2">ner-</b> in Osc. [[ner-um]] [[virorum]], Lat. Sab. [[Ner-ō]] 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 [[δρώψ]] s.s.v. [[ἄνθρωπος]]. - Cf. [[νωρει]]̃.