Re: Formation or etymology of Aineias/Aeneas?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

> 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 Αινειας? (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
> >> Αινειoς? (Aineios)
>
> Yes. The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names gives them as
> <Aineías> and <Aíneios>.

I'm assuming these are formed from ain- plus some kind of suffix, the only one of which
comes to mind is the usual -ijo- suffix that makes gentival adjectives (e.g. Latin -ius), but
though that could kind of explain the ending on the o-stem form <Aíneios>, I don't
understand the <e> in the middle ... nor the masculine a-stem form <Aineías> at all :/

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

Yes, that does seem ... far-fetched! ;)

Cheers,
Carl