ὄγδοος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[eighth]] (Il.).<br />Other forms: [[ὀγδόατος]] (Il.; after [[τέτρατος]] etc.).<br />Compounds: As 1. member prob. in <b class="b3">ὀγδόδιον θυσία παρ</b>' <b class="b3">Ἀθηναίοις τελουμένη Θησεῖ</b> H., prob. prop. of a sacrifice brought "on the eighth day"; cf. [[αὑτόδιον]] w. lit. and Sommer Nominalkomp. 47 n. 1.<br />Derivatives: Deriv. [[ὀγδοαῖος]] [[appearing on the eighth day]] (Plb., Plu.). On [[ὀγδοάς]], <b class="b3">-ήκοντα</b> etc. s. [[ὀκτώ]].<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [775] <b class="b2">*h₃eḱt-</b> [[eight]].<br />Etymology: From <b class="b3">*ὄγδοϜος</b> (oldcor. [<b class="b3">ὀγ]δόϜα</b>), perhaps to [[ὀκτώ]] after the example of [[ἑπτά]] : [[ἕβδομος]] (s. v.). Sommer Zum Zahlwort 24f. considers also the possibility of a regressive voice-assimilation in <b class="b2">*oḱtu̯-os</b> as in [[ἕβδομος]] from <b class="b2">*septm-os</b>, both with anaptyctic <b class="b3">-ο-</b>. A zero-grade <b class="b2">-u-</b>, <b class="b2">-u̯-</b> beside the long diphthongue in [[ὀκτώ]] (IE <b class="b2">*oktōu̯</b>) has also been supposed in Oldphryg. <b class="b3">οτυϜοι Ϝετει</b> [[in the eighth year]] and Goth. [[ahtuda]] [[ὄγδοος]]'. Diphthonges are also found in OHG [[ahtow-i]] pl. [[eighth]] as office and in the lengthened grade Lat. [[octāvus]] (with unclear [[ā]]). Details in Schwyzer 595 w. n. 3, Sommer l.c., W.-Hofmann s. [[octō]]. Cf. Rix, Hist. Gr. 172: <b class="b2">*(h₃)eḱth₃u-h₂o-</b>.