λωΐων: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[better]], [[more desirable]], [[more agreeable]] (Semon. 7, 30); superl. <b class="b3">λῳ̃στος</b> (Thgn., trag.), <b class="b3">ᾦ λῳ̃στε</b> (Pl.); details in v. Wilamowitz Eur. Her. v. 196, Seiler Steigerungsformen 88ff.<br />Other forms: Att. [[λῴων]]; ntr. [[λώϊον]] (Il.), Att. <b class="b3">λῳ̃ον</b>, with plur. [[λώϊα]], <b class="b3">λῳ̃α</b> (Thgn., Theoc.) gen. <b class="b3">τῶν λῴων</b> (Chalcis IIp), also sing. m. <b class="b3">λῳ̃ος</b> (Hdn. Gr.); [[λωΐτερον]] (Od.), <b class="b3">-ερος</b> (A. R.), <b class="b3">-έρη</b> (Call., AP)<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: The first attested ntr. [[λῴϊον]] can be consiered both as <b class="b3">ο-</b>stem and as <b class="b3">ν-</b>stem; certain is the <b class="b3">ο-</b>stem only in the rare or late attested [[λώϊα]], <b class="b3">λῳ̃α</b>, [[λῴων]], <b class="b3">λῳ̃ος</b>. The <b class="b3">ν-</b>stem is ascertained by [[λωΐων]] and [[λῴονος]], <b class="b3">-ι</b> (S.); the regularly alternating <b class="b3">σ-</b>stem appears in [[λῴω]] acc. sg. f. (S., Pl.) and [[λῴους]] acc. pl. f. (S.). From these data Leumann Mus. Helv. 2, 7ff. (= Kl. Schr. 220 f.) concluded, that the <b class="b3">ο-</b>forms originated as analogal formations to the wrongly as <b class="b3">ο-</b>stem interpreted [[λῴϊον]] and that [[λώϊον]] like [[λωΐων]] etc. is an old <b class="b3">ν-</b>stem (on the socalled absolute use Benveniste Noms d'agent 121ff.). Usually one takes with Güntert IF 27, 69ff. [[λωΐων]] etc. as transformed from a supposed positive [[λώϊον]], <b class="b3">λῳ̃ος</b> (Bq, Brugmann-Thumb 247, Fraenkel Glotta 4, 44 n. 1 a. IF 59, 159f., WP. 2, 393, Risch 33c, Schwyzer 539). - The old connection with [[λῆν]] [[will]], [[desire]] is by Güntert [[l.c.]] defended; as primary formations [[λωΐων]], <b class="b3">λῳ̃στος</b> can as well go back on a verb as on a noun; cf. Leumann [[l.c.]] and Seiler Steigerungsformen [[l.c.]] Acc. to Curtius 363 a. o. (s. Bq) however to <b class="b3">ἀπο-λαύω</b>, [[λεία]], [[λαρός]] (s. vv.), with perhaps Arm. [[law]] [[good]], [[better]] (rejected by Güntert [[l.c.]]). Older attempts in Güntert and Bq, ans W.-Hofmann s. [[salvus]].