κοίρανος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[ruler]], [[commander]], [[lord]] (Il.).<br />Compounds: rarely as 2. member, e. g. <b class="b3">πολυ-κοίρανος</b> [[ruling many]] (A. Fr. 238, lyr.) with [[πολυκοιρανίη]] [[ruling many]] (Rhian. 1, 10); but Β 204 = [[ruling of many]] with the first member as subject; the 2. member is verbal noun to [[κοιρανέω]].<br />Derivatives: [[κοιρανίδαι]] pl. <b class="b2">sons of rulers, members of the ruling house</b> (S. Ant. 940; Fraenkel Nom. ag. 2, 20); <b class="b3">κοιρανῃ̃ος</b> and [[κοιρανικός]] [[belonging to the ruling house]] (late poets); [[κοιρανίη]] [[dynasty]] (D. P., APl.; s. above); [[κοιρανέω]] [[rule]] (Il.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [515] <b class="b2">*kor(i)os</b> [[war]], [[army]]<br />Etymology: With [[κοίρανος]] agrees (except the middle vowel) OWNo. [[herjann]] surname of Odin; given the productivity of the <b class="b2">no-</b>suffix, esp. in words of this meaning (Lat. [[dominus]] : [[domus]], Goth. [[Þiudans]] [[king]] : [[Þiuda]] [[people]] etc.), the word need not be an old inheritance. But the basis is in any case common, i. e. a word for [[army]], [[fighting group]] with representatives in Germanic, Baltic and Celtic, e. g. Goth. [[harjis]] [[army]], Lith. <b class="b2">kãrias</b> <b class="b2">id.</b>, MIr. [[cuire]] m. [[crowd]], [[group]], Gaul. <b class="b2">Tri-</b>, [[Petru-corii]] people's-namen ("consisting of three, resp. four tribes"), IE. <b class="b2">*kori̯os</b>. In Greek too the word has existed, also in proper name like <b class="b3">Κοιρό-μαχος</b>, [[Κοιρατάδας]] (Solmsen Glotta 1, 76ff.). - Beside IE. <b class="b2">*kori̯os</b> there was without <b class="b2">i̯o- *kor(o</b>)- in Lith. <b class="b2">kãras</b> [[war]], OPers. <b class="b2">kāra-</b> [[army]], [[people]]. Further details in Pok. 615f., Fraenkel Lit. et. Wb. s. <b class="b2">kãr(i)as</b>. - In Greek [[κοίρανος]] was replaced by [[ἄναξ]] and [[βασιλεύς]]; s. vv.