- κολώνη
- κολώνηGrammatical information: f.,Meaning: `hill, hight, stone-, tomb-hill etc.' (Il., Pi., S.), also as GN (town in Troas, Att. demos);Other forms: κολωνός m. (h. Cer., Hdt., X., A. R.)Compounds: as 2. member in Καλλι-κολώνη hill near Troy (Il.; Schwyzer 453 n. 5), ὑψι-κόλωνος `carrying high' (Opp.).Derivatives: κολωνία (in wrong place; so for -ώνα? [Schmidt]) τάφος. Ήλεῖοι H. (Scheller Oxytonierung 56); from the demos-name Κολωνέται pl. (Hyperid.; Fraenkel Nom. ag. 2, 128 n. 1).Origin: IE [Indo-European] [544] *kolH-n- `rise, height'.Etymology: κολών-η and κολων-ός presuppose an old n-stem, which is also seen in Lit. káln-as `mountain', Lat. collis `hill' \< *coln-is, OE hyll, NEngl. hill \< PGm. *huln-i-. The n-stem *kolH-(e)n-, *kl̥H-n- is an agent noun "the highranging" of a primary verb `rise up', which with (orig. only present forming?) -d- is seen in Lat. -cellō \< *-cel-d-ō . On suffixal -ώνη, -ωνός s. Chantraine Formation 207f. - The analysis of Brugmann (Grundr.2 2 : 1, 280), Specht (Ursprung 137f.) (κολώνη, -ός \< IE. *kolō[u]-no- an u-stem alternating with the n-stem in Lith. káln-as (in lat. colu-men ), is not to be preferred. - Pok. 544, W.-Hofmann s. collis a. celsus, Fraenkel Lit. et. Wb. s. kálnas.Page in Frisk: 1,906-907
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.