πέλεια: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[wild pigeon]], (Il.).<br />Other forms: [[πελειάς]], <b class="b3">-άδος</b>, mostly pl. <b class="b3">-άδες</b> f.<br />Compounds: As 1. member in <b class="b3">πελειο-θρέμμων</b> [[feeding pigeons]] (A.); also metaph. as name of the priestesses of the sanctuary of Dodona (Hdt., S., Paus.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">πελείους Κῶοι καὶ οἱ Ήπειρῶται τοὺς γέροντας καὶ τὰς πρεσβύτιδας</b> H.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [804] <b class="b2">*pel-</b> [[gray]]<br />Etymology: As so many animal-names (Chantraine Form. 98, Schwyzer 474) formation with <b class="b3">ια-</b>suffix; from that with the in animal-names also frequent <b class="b3">αδ-</b>suffix (Chantraine 354 a. 356, Schw. 508, Sommer Münch. Stud. 4,6f.) [[πελειάς]]. The masc. [[πελείους]] is sec. innovation. -- Clearly like e.g. Lat. [[palumbēs]] named after the colour and cognate with [[πελιός]], [[πολιός]], [[πελιτνός]], but in detail not quite clear. Accent as in [[λίγεια]], [[ἐλάχεια]] (s. vv.) a.o., so from an <b class="b3">υ-</b>stem <b class="b3">*πελύς</b> [[gray]] ? -- Because of their gray-white haircolour the priestesses in Dodona (like the old ones in Cos and Epeiros) were called "the doves"; so the prop. meaning not with Bq, WP. 2, 53, W.-Hofmann s. [[palleō]] "the Gray-headed Old Ones". -- Cf. [[περιστερά]].