- πότνια
- πότνιαGrammatical information: f.Meaning: `lady, mistress', esp. of godesses (ep. poet. Il.).Other forms: Myc. potinija. On Myc. adj. potinijawejo Lejeune Par. del Pass. 17, 401 ff. - On πότνα, disyll. = πότνι̯α (Od. a.o.), orig. only in voc. πότνα θεά(?), where it was metr. condit., Schwyzer 559 Zus. 2, Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 170, Sjölund Metr. Kürzung 9 f.Derivatives: ποτνιάδες pl. `id.' (E.; after μαινάδες a.o., Chantraine Form. 355 a. 357); ποτνι-άομαι `to beseech (a goddess), to wail, to lament', esp. of women (late prose; on the meaning Mras Glotta 12, 67f.) with -ασμοί pl. (Str.), -ασις f. (Poll.) `wail', -αστής m. `lamenter' (Phld.); also -άζομαι in ποτνιάζου εὔχου, παρακάλει H. -- ON Ποτνιαί f. pl. Boeot. town-name (Paus.), called after the Πότνιαι (Demeter and Kore); from it adj. Ποτν-ιάς (A. a.o.) and PN -εύς (Paus.; Bosshardt 108).Origin: IE [Indo-European] [842] *potis `lord, husband'Etymology: Identical with Skt. pátnī f. `Mistress, goddess', Av. paʮnī f. `mistress', OLith. vieš-patni f. `(high) woman, mistress': IE *pótnih₂. Orig. fern. of IE *pótis `lord, husband' in πόσις `husband', from which πότνια `mistress, goddess' became removed. On IE fem. in -nī s. (w. rich lit.) Szemerényi Syncope in Greek and I.-Eur. 391 ff., who rejects the asumption of an IE cons.stem *pot- beside *poti- (but whose explanation of *pótnī as a late IE syncope of *póti-nī is less convincing).Page in Frisk: 2,586-587
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.