- Πελασγοί
- ΠελασγοίGrammatical information: m. pl.Meaning: name of an (the) older Pre-Greek population of the Agaean area, sg. -ός `Pelasgian' (Il.).Derivatives: Πελασγ-ικός `Pelasgian' (Il., Hdt.), -ιος `id.' (A., E.), f. -ίς (Hdt., A. R.), -ιάς (Call.); -ίη f. = Έλλάς (Hdt.); -ιῶται m. pl., -ιῶτις f. sg. inhabitants of the Πελασγιῶτις f. landscape in southern Thessalia (Hdt.). -- Πελαργικὸν τεῖχος n. name of the ground at the northerly river of the Acropolis in Athens (Hdt., Att.) with old transition of σγ (= zg) to ργ (Schwyzer 218)?Origin: XX [etym. unknown]Etymology: No etymology. Widely accepted was the hypothesis of Kretschmer (first Glotta 1, 16 f.) which explained Πελασγοί from *Πελαγσ-κοί as "inhabitant of flat land", from πέλαγος in orig. sense of `plain'. This semantically uncertain, formally contestable interpretation was also several times doubted; s. F. Lochner-Hüttenbach Die Pelasger (Arb. Inst. Sprachw. 6. Wien 1960) 143ff. with referee of also other proposals and extensive treatment of the whole problem (on Πελαργικόν ibd. 116 w. n. 74); cf. the dicussion by Kronassers, Sprache 7, 218ff.Page in Frisk: 2,495-496
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.