πρόμος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[protagonist]] (Hom.), [[commander]] (trag.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [814] <b class="b2">*promos</b> [[first]]<br />Etymology: Usually (since Corssen KZ 3, 246, Curtius a.o.) with Umbr. [[promom]] [[primum]], Goth. OWNo. [[fram]] [[forward]] identified as old superlative of IE <b class="b2">*pro</b> in [[πρό]] etc. Beside it with zero grade the hapax [[πράμος]] (s.v.) like Goth. [[fruma]] [[first]], [[earlier]](?). -- Because in Hom. the word means only <b class="b2">champion (Vorkämpfer)</b> the hypothesis must be considered, that [[πρόμος]] was simply shortened from [[πρόμαχος]] (Hentze in Fick Curt. Stud. 9, 196, Schulze KZ 32, 195 = Kl. Schr. 310, Bechtel Lex. s.v., Risch $ 85) ; the meaning [[leader]] would be due to misunderstanding of the ep. word. -- The metr. difficult [[ἅπ]]. [[λεγ]]. [[πρόμνοι]] A. Supp. 904 ([[ἀγοὶ]] πρόμος; lyr.) may be a fault of the tradition; diff. Forssman KZ 79, 11 ff. (s. [[πρυμνός]]).