Agamemnon?

From: HÃ¥kan Lindgren
Message: 19768
Date: 2003-03-13

Eavesdropping here.... What is the etymology of the name Agamemnon?

Hakan
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: Err... you _are_ wrong here. <aga-> as in Agamemnon is an intensifying prefix in Greek (etymological interpretations vary; it might be the zero grade of <mega->, i.e. *m.g^h2-, thouh I'm aware of other possibilities as well). But in Agathocles the first element is simply <agatHo-> 'good, noble'. Agathyrsi does make sense as a _Greek_ name (even if it should be a folk-etymologial distortion of an unknown original, or whatever).
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: Piotr