From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 60286
Date: 2008-09-24
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From: Joao S. Lopes
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 1:15 PM
Subject: Res: [tied] Oedipus
I think Oidipous originally has no relation to -pous "foot". It's just a
folk-etymology. Probably the same suffix as in Melampous, a Greek hero. I've
tested many possibilities...
1) Pre-Greek names.
2) a corrupted form of -hippos? Oid-ippos?
3) Oidipous < *Widipo-? <*WigWikWo-?
4) An inverted form of Poseidon? cp. Posoida:n and Oidipous... Pods-oida-hon
x Oidi-pod-s
5) -pous < *gWoHu-, "cow" ?
J.S. Lopes
Brazil
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I'm not sure we have any reason to postulate a digamma at the beginning of
Oidipo:s.
What about the poetic form : Nom oidipos, Gen oidipous ?
How do you take this into account ?
Arnaud