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START / NODE 586Ancient GreekArchaic and later Ancient Greek
ἔτυμος
An Ancient Greek adjective meaning true, real, or actual; its neuter later supplied a technical noun for a word’s true sense according to its origin.
“ἔτυμος did not itself mean the modern science of etymology. The path from “true” to a technical account of word history is a later semantic and compound history.”OPEN COMPLETE WORD DOSSIER ↗
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Ancient Greekἔτυμος
true, real, actual; in the neuter, the true sense of a word
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Proto-Indo-European · Proto-Indo-European formation, proposed*setu-mo-true, real
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- SOUND CHANGE
- The Greek form is analyzed from *setu-mo- with loss of initial *s and Greek development of the reconstructed formation.
- SEMANTIC CHANGE
- A reconstructed adjective of truth or reality continues as Greek “true, real, actual.”
- SCHOLAR
- Robert Beekes · Martin Gális
- CONFIDENCE
- proposed — The *setu-mo- morphology is published but not directly attested or universally settled.
2 CITATIONSEtymological Dictionary of Greeks.v. ἔτυμος and ἐτεός, pp. 473–475 Mycenae, Troy and Anatolia: Mycenaean Names in Hittite Documents, and Anatolian Names in the Homeric IliadEteocles discussion: ἔτυμος < *setu-mo- AUDIT CANONICAL EDGE 547 ↗
Publishes the *setu-mo- analysis while marking the wider etymology uncertain.
ORIGINAL ↗Independently summarizes the proposed adjectival formation.
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