- ἐριούνης
- ἐριούνηςGrammatical information: adj.Meaning: of Hermes (Υ 34, θ 322), late of θεοί (Ant. Lib. 25, 2), νόος (Orph. L. 199).Other forms: ἐριούνιος (Il., h. Merc., Ar. Ra. 1144)Origin: XX [etym. unknown]Etymology: The old scholars saw wrongly two simplicia: οὔνης κλέπτης, οὔνιος [εὖνις,] δρομεύς, κλέπτης H.; cf. Leumann Hom. Wörter 123. Better seem the glosses οὖνον [ὑγιές.] Κύπριοι δρόμον and οὔνει (for οὔνη?) δεῦρο, δράμε. Άρκάδες. Here further the Cypr. PN Φιλουνίου (gen.), cf. Φιλόδρομος. Έρι-ούνης, -ούνιος then the quick messenger of the gods? Thus (after Bergk Philol. 11, 384) with new argumentation Latte Glotta 34, 192ff; doubted by Masson, ICS 256 n. 1.- Several wrong proposals in Bq s. v. (s. also Add. et corr.); wrong also Pisani KZ 72, 216. Also Ruijgh, Élém. ach. 136, 142.Page in Frisk: 1,559
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.