Ἑρμῆς: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=οῦ<br />Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: Hermes, son of Zeus and Maia; also `Hermes-pillar, Hermes-head' (Il.)<br />Other forms: [[Ἐρμείας]], <b class="b3">-έας</b>, [[Ἐρμείης]] (Call.), [[Ἐρμᾶς]] (Dor. Boeot.), [[Ἐρμάων]] (Hes.), [[Ἐρμάν]], <b class="b3">Ἐρμᾶνος</b> (Lac. Arc.), [[Ἐρμάου]], <b class="b3">Ἐρμάο</b>, <b class="b3">Ἐρμᾶ</b> (Thess. dat.), [[Ἐρμαον]] (Cret. acc.).<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. <b class="b2">E-ma-a₂</b> (dat.)<br />Compounds: As 1. member z. B. in [[ἑρμογλυφεῖον]] (Pl.) with retrograde <b class="b3">ἑρμογλυφεύς</b>, <b class="b3">Ἐρμικός</b>, <b class="b3">-ος</b> (Luc. a. o.), s. [[γλύφω]].<br />Derivatives: Hypocoristic dimin. [[Ἐρμίδιον]] (Ar.), <b class="b3">-άδιον</b> (Luc.; also [[small Hermespillar]] [Lydia]), after the nouns in <b class="b3">Ἐρμίδιον</b>, <b class="b3">-άδιον</b>. <b class="b2">Ερμαῖος `belonging to Hermes, of Hermes</b>, also as name of a month (A., S.; prob. also <b class="b3">Ἑρμαῖος λόφος π</b> 471, if not from 1. [[ἕρμα]]; s. below); ntr. <b class="b3">Ἑρμαῖον</b> [[Hermes]] [[temple]] (Ephesos.; on the accent Hdn. Gr. 1, 369), pl. <b class="b3">Ε῝ρμαια</b> ([[ἱερά]]) <b class="b2">Hermes-feast</b> (Att.); as appellative [[ἕρμαιον]] n. "Hermes-gift", i. e. <b class="b2">chance-find, unexpected advantage</b> (Pl., S.); also plant-name (Stromberg Pflanzennamen 129); f. [[Ἐρμαΐς]] (Hp.); [[Ἐρμαιών]] name of a month (Halicarn., Keos); [[Ἐρμαϊσταί]] pl. name of the Hermes-adorers, [[Mercuriales]] (Rhodos, Kos, Delos), cf. e. g. [[Ἀπολλωνιασταί]] and Chantraine Formation 317; [[Ἐρμαϊκός]] (late). [[Ἐρμεῖα]] pl. meaning uncertain (Str. 8, 3, 12).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: [[Ἐρμῆς]] < [[Ἐρμέας]] < [[Ἐρμείας]] (Aeol.; cf. [[Αἰνείας]] a. o.; cf. Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 20; after Solmsen Wortforsch. 240 n. 1, Schwyzer 562 however <b class="b3">Ἐρμείας</b> < <b class="b3">Ἐρμέας</b> as metr. lengthening) and [[Ἐρμάν]] from [[Ἐρμάων]] for <b class="b3">*ἘρμάϜων</b> (like [[ΠοσειδάϜων]] a. o.) represent two diff. types of name. The latter is rejected by Myc. [[emaa₂]], /[[Hermahas]]/. - The derivation from K. O. Müller, accepted a. o. by von Wilamowitz (Glaube 1, 159 and 285) and Nilsson (Gr. Rel. 1, 503f.), proposing connection with 1. [[ἕρμα]], is linguistically (Schwyzer 562 n. 1) possible; both <b class="b3">Ἐρμείας</b> and <b class="b3">Ἐρμά(Ϝ)ων</b> seem to be normal types of name that can be combined with [[ἕρμα]]. In this view [[Ἐρμῆς]] would have been named after "the pillar which represents him" (Wil.) or simply "he of the heaps of stone" (Nilsson). But [[ἕρμα]] does not mean pillar nor does not mean [[heap of stones]] (therefore [[ἕρμαξ]], [[ἑρμεών]]); also <b class="b3">ἑρμαῖος λόφος π</b> 471 can indicate only the heap of [[ἕρματα]]. - The resemblance with [[ἑρμηνεύς]] induced Boßhardt Die Nomina auf <b class="b3">-ευς</b> 36f. (with doubtful linguistic analysis) to consider [[Ἐρμῆς]], "the companion of gods and men", as the the primeval interpreter projected under the gods"; the appellative [[Ἐρμῆς]] would itself be Pre-Greek; thus also Schwyzer 62, Chantraine Formation 125. - The Myc. form shows that it is an unanalysable Pre-Greek name. See Ruijgh, REG (1967) 12.