- ζέφυρος
- ζέφυροςGrammatical information: m.Meaning: `Westwind', also personified (Il.).Dialectal forms: Myc. zepu₂ro-; uncertain is the interpretation of zepu₂ra₃ (s. Aura Jorro)Compounds: As 2. member in Έπιζεφύριοι Λοκροί name of the western (Italic) Locrians (Hdt.), also ἐπι-ζέφυρος `lying towards the West, western' (hell.); both hypostases from ἐπὶ ζέφυρον; φιλο-ζέφυρος `loving the Westwind' (AP).Derivatives: ζεφύριος `belonging to the Westwind' (Od., Arist.); w. the same meaning ζεφυρ-ικός (Arist., Thphr.), -ήϊος, f. -ηΐς (Nonn.), -ίτης, -ῖτις, also epithet of Aphrodite as goddess of a cape Ζεφύριον ἄκρον in Lower Egypt (Call.; vgl. Redard Les noms grecs en -της 112, 146, 209); patronymic Ζεφυρίδης (Thasos; Bechtel Dial. 3, 140).Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [298] *(H)iebh- `futuere'. [ζόφος not in Pok.]Etymology: Perhaps with Buttmann Lexilogus4 114 n. 4 to ζόφος `dark, west', which DELG calls `certain'; s. ζόφος. Thus Risch, Mus. Helv. 25 (1968) 205-213, with a suggestion for the formation. Improbable suppositions in Loewenthal WuS 10, 186. - Also Bq. Ambrosini, Anni, AnnPisa142-7, connected οἴφω (s.v.), because the Westwind in popular belief fertilized women; but the semantics is weak. Peters, Unters. 96f., criticizes that *h₃eibh- beside *h₃iebh- is unmotivated. Also *Hi̯- \> ζ- has not been demonstrated. *(H)iebh- is found in Skt. yábhati, Russ. jebú etc. (ζέφυρος could be derived from *(H)iebh- anyhow.) - Or is it Pre-Greek (with a \> ε after the palat. dy)?Page in Frisk: 1,611
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