Re: Ethymology of Hellene

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "homermakedonski"
<homermakedonski@...> wrote:

> A more scientific
> approach considers this an aitiological myth
> <http://www.biologydaily.com/biology/Aitiology> , placing the origin of
> the name in Epirus <http://www.biologydaily.com/biology/Epirus> , the
> land of the Dorians <http://www.biologydaily.com/biology/Dorians> ,
> where people were called Selloi or Helloi. The etymology of the term is
> *sedlenes, meaning "settlers"

This is probably basically correct, though I'd say it was a
derivation from noun *sed(t)lo+ 'seat' >> verb *sedlax+ 'settle' >>
noun *sedlaxno+s 'settler' which was put into the C-stems later.