- Ἄτλας
- Ἄτλας, -αντοςGrammatical information: PN m.Meaning: `Atlas' (Od.), name of the god who carries the pillars of heaven.Derivatives: Άτλαντίς f. (Hes.), o. a. name of a mythical island, plausibly interpreted as Minoan Crete (R. Castleden, Atlantis destroyed 1998). Άτλαντικός (E.) and Άτλάντειος (Critias).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: Originally the name of an Arcadian mountain god, whose name was brought over to the mountain chain in Westafrica, s. Solmsen Wortforsch. 24; on Atlas as the personification of the axis of the earth Tièche Mus. Helv. 2, 65ff. - The old interpretation is α copulativum and the root of τλῆ-ναι, reshaped after the ντ-stems (cf. Άτλᾱγενέων Hes. Op. 383); Kretschmer Glotta 7, 37 A. 1. - The name of the African mountain is also compared with Berber ádrār `mountain' (Steinhauser Glotta 25, 229ff.). Thus Brandenstein Archiv Orientální 17 : 1, 69ff. who plausibly suggests folk etymological reshaping of Berb. ádrār. - The meaning of the Greek etymology is unclear, the assumption of *sm̥- is clearly a desperate guess. An IE name for this very old Titan is not to be expected; Pre-Greek words often end in -ant-. S. Beekes Glotta 71, 1995\/6, 12 n. 1.Page in Frisk: 1,179
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