Res: [tied] Oedipus

Oidipos seems more archaic than Oidipous (through influence of "swollen foot"). Since we don't know its origin (Greek, Pre-Greek, Dialectal Greek, any IE non-Greek adstratum, or anymore else) everything is possible. Oidipo(u)s' etymology is so cloudy as Laios and Labdakos, his ancestors. I think Oidipos and Melampos shared the same suffix, but this *-pos didnt mean "foot", as the folk-etymologies sugested. Oidipos was a Labdacid, descending of dragon-teeth-born Spartoi, and Melampos was an Aeolid, son of Amythaon.

JS Lopes

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De: Arnaud Fournet <fournet.arnaud@...>
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Assunto: Re: [tied] Oedipus

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From: Joao S. Lopes
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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

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