'aiólos'

• Autores: Alexander Dale
• Localización: Glotta: zeitschrift für griechische und lateinische sprache..., ISSN 0017-1298, Nº. 97, 2021, págs. 73-82
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper offers a new etymology of the Greek adjective αἰόλος, arguing for a haplologised compound *ai̯ṷei̯-ṷol-o- (<*h2ei̯ṷei̯-ṷol-o-), deriving ultimately from *h2oi̯u-, ‘vital force, life, lifetime, eternity’ and *ṷel- ‘twist, turn’. Support for the derivation is found in the formulaic distribution of αἰόλος in early Greek poetry, as well as in the scholiastic tradition. Building on this, other complementary reflexes of *ṷel- are examined, in particular ἕλιξ and its derivatives, to show a limited degree of semantic cross-contamination in the evolution of poetic diction. I conclude with an examination of another possible instance of haplologised ai̯ṷei̯ in the epic adjective αἰζηός, ‘vigorous, full of life’, building on observations of Saussure and Weiss.