ἔθος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: [[custom]], [[usage]] (Ion.-Att.).<br />Derivatives: Old only [[ἐθάς]] m. f. [[usual]] (Hp., Th.); late [[ἔθιμος]] [[usual]] (Amorgos Ia, D. S. etc.; after [[νόμιμος]], Arbenz Die Adj. auf <b class="b3">-ιμος</b> 99), [[ἐθικός]] [[usual]] (Plu.), [[ἐθήμων]] <b class="b2">id.</b> (Musae.) with <b class="b3">ἐθημο-λογέω</b> [[collect as usual]] (AP), [[ἐθημοσύνη]] (H., Suid.). Denomin. verb [[ἐθίζω]] (not with Schwyzer 716 from <b class="b3">*ἔθω</b>, s. [[ἔθων]] and [[εἴωθα]]) with [[ἔθισμα]] [[usage]] (Pl.), [[ἐθισμός]] [[custom]] (Arist.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [883] <b class="b2">*su̯edʰ-</b> [[own character]]?<br />Etymology: If one assumes <b class="b3">*Ϝέθος</b> from IE <b class="b2">*su̯édhos</b> (with dissimilation) one can compare Skt. <b class="b2">svadhā,́</b> [[use]], [[own character]]. Further there is the Germ. word for [[custom]], Goth. [[sidus]] m. etc., which will go back on IE <b class="b2">*sedhu-</b>. Also Lat. [[sodālis]] [[comrade]] as <b class="b2">*su̯edhālis</b> (<b class="b2">su̯odh-</b>) has been compared. The basis of <b class="b2">su̯edh-</b>, <b class="b2">sedh-</b> can be the reflexive <b class="b2">*s(u̯)e</b> (s. [[ἕ]], [[ἑ]]); "das erweiternde [[dh]] wird gewöhnlich, aber ganz willkürlich, mit dem Wort für [[setzen]], [[tun]] (s. [[τίθημι]]) identifiziert" (Frisk). - See [[εἴωθα]], [[ἦθος]], aslo [[ἔτης]] and [[ἕταρος]].