Re: Formation or etymology of Aineias/Aeneas?

At 10:59:55 PM on Wednesday, April 23, 2008, mkelkar2003
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Edlund Anderson"
> <cea@...> wrote:

>> Can anyone comment of the underlying forms for the Greek
>> name Î`ἰνείαÏ? (Aineias)? What little I've
>> discovered suggests it's derived from αίνοÏ? (ainos)
>> "praise", perhaps with the sense "praise-worthy", but I
>> don't fully understand how it's put together. I am given
>> to understand that there is also an o-stem form
>> Î`ἲνειοÏ? (Aineios)

Yes. The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names gives them as
<Aineías> and <Aíneios>.

>> likewise supposedly from αίνοÏ? (ainos), in which
>> case perhaps we're seeing the IE -jo- suffix for forming
>> genitival adjectives (e.g. Latin -ius)? Though even then
>> I don't understand the a-stem version. (Possibly due to
>> my limited knowledge of Greek!).

> Possibly related to Alina, one of the enemies of King
> Sudas described in the Rig Veda.

Hardly.

Brian