Διόνυσος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: N. of a god (Il.).<br />Other forms: Dial. [[Διώνυσος]] (ep. lyr.), [[Διόννυσος]] (Thess. Cret.), [[Ζόννυσος]] (Aeol.), [[ΔιΕνυσος]] (Amorgos), [[Δεύνυσος]] (Anacr.). Hypoc. voc. [[Διονῦ]] (Phryn. Com. 10); cf. <b class="b3">διον(ν)ύς ὁ γυναικίας καὶ παράθηλυς</b> H., EM; <b class="b3">διοννύς ἡ γυναικεία καὶ θῆλυς ἐσθής</b> (Eust.).<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. <b class="b2">δι-wo-nu-so-jo</b> gen.? \/[[Diwonusoio]]\/. Cf. Here also Hallager et al. 1992 and 1997 dat. [[diwonuso]].<br />Derivatives: [[Διονύσιος]], PN, with the fem. [[Διονυσιάς]]; pl. n. <b class="b3">τὰ Διονύσια</b> <b class="b2">the feast for D.</b> (Att. etc.) with [[Διονυσιακός]] (Th.); [[Διονυσίσκος]], dimin., denom. of a person, with bone-like grows on the temples (medic.); denomin. [[διονυσιάζω]] <b class="b2">feast the D.</b> (Luc. u. a.) with [[Διονυσιασταί]] m. pl. name of the D.-worshippers (Nisyros etc.; cf. [[Ἀπολλωνιασταί]] s. [[Ἀπόλλων]]).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: From <b class="b3">&#42;Διοσ-νυσος</b>, Schwyzer 283). Dionysos would have come from Thrace. His father would be Zeus, his mother [[Σεμέλη]] (s. v.). As the first member seemed the gen. of the Thracian Zeus, Kretschmer (Einleitung 241f.) assumed in the second member a Thracian word for [[son]] (found in Thracian names like [[Νῦσα]]; further [[Νῦσαι]], [[Νύσιαι]] the nymphs, who cared for him) and Nusatita (PN). This interpretation, however, finds no support (s. on [[νυός]]). Dunkel, FS Strunk, 1995, 1-21, assumed i.a. that the name contains <b class="b2">&#42;suHnu-</b> [[son]], of which [[s]] and [[n]] were metathesized. This is, however, improbable. Fur. 250 recalls the PN [[Διονυτᾶς]] (beside <b class="b3">-σᾶς</b> on a coin from Teos; G. Meyer, Gr. Gramm. (1896) 381) and stresses that the variation [[τ]]\/[[σ]] points to a non-IE = Pre-Greek word. Attempts to find an IE etym., then, have failed and we have to accept that it is a foreign name. On Dionysos Nilsson Gr. Rel. 1, 564ff.