Lykaon, the Greek Arcadian wolf-man and his city Lykosoura

From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 62074
Date: 2008-12-15

Lykaon in the Greek legends (Arcadia) was considered to be the founder of the first city: Lykosoura. I suspect this lyk- stem is not the "normal" Greek word lykos "word", but may represent some Pre-Greek root. A possibility is that it meant "peak" or "mountain", cf. Lynkeia, Lyrkeia, Lyko:reia ("wolf-mountain" according to Greek folk-etymology), and even Lokris.

Lygkeus and Lyrkos could be linked if both were dissimilated forms of an older *Lulk- < *luk-l-

If we add Deukalion to this "group", we could assume a proto-form *Deuklion < *Dleuk-li-on; so Lykaon < *dluk-; and Glaukos could come from same form.

JS Lopes



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