δήϊος

δήϊος

Grammatical information: adj.

Meaning: `inimical, terrible', of πῦρ, also of πόλεμος, ἀνήρ (Il.), (cf. below); through false connection with δαῆναι `able, experienced' (APl.).

Dialectal forms: Dor. δάϊος, δᾳ̃ος

Derivatives: δηϊοτής, -τῆτος f. (oxytonesis Schwyzer 528 n. 7) `battle, struggle, death' (Hom.); partly as if from δηϊόω (Trümpy Fachausdrücke 136ff.). Denomin. δηϊόω, δῃόω `slay, kill' (Il.), `destroy' (Ion.-Att.); isolated δηϊάασκον (A. R. 2, 142) after ep. -αασκ-. From it δηϊοῦσα surname of κώνειον "the killing" (Ps.-Dsc.; cf. Strömberg Pflanzennamen 64). - For δηϊόω Wackernagel Unt. 170f. prposes to read in the epic δηΐω (δήϊον for δῄουν Ε 452 etc.), as A. R. 3, 1374 and H. have δῄειν πολεμεῖν, φονεύειν which can be a denomin. of *δηΐς in Δηΐ-φοβος usw. (cf. Kretschmer Glotta 10, 49f.). - Among the PN in Δηϊ- note Δηϊ-άνειρα (S. etc.), formed after ἀντιάνειρα (s. v.), κυδι-άνειρα etc., with verbal reinterpretation of the first member : `killing the man'; cf. Sommer A. u. Sprw. 41.

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]

Etymology: The frequent epic expression δήιον πῦρ (verse end) and πυρὸς δηίοιο (combined with θεσπιδαες πῦρ (Μ 177 etc.) suggests a meaning `burning' and connection with δαίω `burn'. The expressions (δ. πῦρ, πυρὸς δηίοιο) are metrically difficult. Ruijgh, Lingua 25, 1970, 318, observes that Myc. Daiqota (cf. Δηιθόντης) has no F, so it must have had an -h- (Dāhi-), which would show that the word is non-IE. There is no overall theory (see DELG). See Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 107, Leumann Hom. Wörter 129, .

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