Re: [tied] Meteoric iron, self-smelted

From: S.Kalyanaraman
Message: 21597
Date: 2003-05-07

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, jpisc98357@... wrote:>
kalyan97@... writes: > There is mention of cast iron in the Iliad:
[Il. > > XXIII.826]; a disk is the prize in a disk-throwing
competition; the disk > > is of iron and is "aujtocovwno".
> > > > What does this description mean? Self-smelted (meteoric) iron?
> > > Dear Kalyan,> > If the passage is a survival from
Mycenaean times and is meteoric iron > it would be forged, not cast.

There are some compounds with aujto-

aujtovxulo 'of one piece of wood'

aujtogenhv 'of the same stock'

aujtopaghv 'compact'

So, does the compound, aujtocovwno mean: '(meteoric iron) forged in
one piece'?