ἔθνος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: [[group]], [[heap]], [[swarm]] (of people, animals; Hom., Pi.), [[class]], [[people]] (Hdt.), [[foreign people]] (Arist.), <b class="b3">τὰ ἔθνη</b> [[the heathens]] (NT); on the meaning Chantr. BSL 43, 52ff.<br />Compounds: As 1. member in <b class="b3">ἐθν-άρχης</b> [[governor]], [[prince]] (LXX, J., NT), as 2. member a. o. in <b class="b3">ὁμο-εθνής</b> [[belonging to the same people]] (Hdt.), <b class="b3">ἀλλο-εθνής</b> (hell.).<br />Derivatives: [[ἐθνικός]] <b class="b2">belonging to a foreign people, national, traditional, heathen</b> (hell.), cf. [[γενικός]] to [[γένος]]; [[ἐθνίτης]] [[belonging to the same people]] (Eust., Suid.), <b class="b3">ἐθνισταί οἱ ἐκ τοῦ αὑτοῦ ἔθνους</b> H.; cf. Redard Les noms grecs en <b class="b3">-της</b> 22; [[ἐθνυμών]] meaning? (Hdn. Gr.; after [[δαιτυμών]]?); [[ἐθνηδόν]] adv. [[per people]] (LXX).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: Unknown. If <b class="b3">-νος</b> is a suffix (<b class="b3">ἔρ-νος</b>, <b class="b3">σμῆ-νος</b>; Chantr. Form. 420, Schwyzer 512) one may compare [[ἔθος]] (s. v.), perh. from <b class="b2">*su̯edh-nos</b>, which like Goth. [[sibja]] [[Sippe]], the peoples name [[Suēbī]] a. o. (IE <b class="b2">*s(u̯)ēbh-</b> Pok. 883) goes back on the reflexive <b class="b2">*s(u̯)e</b> (s. [[ἕ]], [[ἑ]]). Other hypotheses by Fick (s. Bq), Fay (s. Kretschmer Glotta 1, 378), Bonfante (s. Schwyzer 512 n. 6). - One connected also [[ὀθνεῖος]] (Demokr., Pl.) as <b class="b2">belonging to the ἔθνος</b> (Fraenkel Gnomon 22, 238); in this case hardly from <b class="b2">*su̯e-</b>. The word could be of foreign origin. - From [[ἔθνος]] (spoken [[ἕθνος]]) Kopt. [[hεθνος]], Arm. [[het]][[anos]], and also Goth. [[haiÞno]] [[heathen]] (from where the other Germ. words).