- ἁλοσύδνη
- ἁλοσύδνηGrammatical information: adj.Meaning: epithet of Thetis Υ 207, the Nereids A. R. 4, 1599, name of a sea-goddess δ 404. Meaning unknown.Dialectal forms: Myc. a₂ro[ ]udopi has been interpreted as \/halos hudo(t)phi\/.Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [878] *sh₂el- 'salt'; [78] *ued- `water'Etymology: Connected with ἅλς and ὕδωρ as "Wave of the sea", s. ὕδωρ. - ὕδναι ἔγγονοι, σύντροφοι and ὕδνης εἰδώς, ἔμπειρος H. can have been extracted from ἁλοσύδνη. The relevance of the Myc. word(s) is unclear. Cf. DELG. - The meaning, though, is not very clear, and the form aCVC-udn- is typically Pre-Greek. Chantraine's Καλυδών, -ύδνα (typically Pre-Greek) is an example; cf. Καλυκαδνος. Schwyzer 475.5 asks whether the nom. was -υδνα, in which case Pre-Greek origin is even more probable.Page in Frisk: 1,77-78
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.