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HeroEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
From Ancient Greek Ἡρώ (Hērṓ).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗heroEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
From Middle English heroes, from Old French heroes, from Latin hērōs (“hero”), from Ancient Greek ἥρως (hḗrōs, “demi-god, hero”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to watch over, protect”); if so, related to Latin servo (“protect”). Displaced Middle English heleð, haleð, from Old English hæleþ, hæle.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗heroEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
From Middle English heroes, from Old French heroes, from Latin hērōs (“hero”), from Ancient Greek ἥρως (hḗrōs, “demi-god, hero”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to watch over, protect”); if so, related to Latin servo (“protect”). Displaced Middle English heleð, haleð, from Old English hæleþ, hæle.
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resolvedestablishedposition text
Could κῆδος mean connection by marriage?
Yes. LSJ cites Herodotus, Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles, Philo, and Thucydides for affinity or contracting marriage.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 0
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SOURCE REPORTEDlexical corpus record
Herodotus occurrence reported by the Liddell–Scott entry
μῦς / μυς / c. 430 BCE
μῦς — Liddell and Scott Ancient Greek Dictionarywitness-title prefix / OPEN RECORD ↗SOURCE REPORTEDlexical corpus record
Old High German Tatian, Herod and Pilate
fīant / fīant / Old High German Tatian; source-reported
Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch — fîant, fîjantreporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗SOURCE REPORTEDlexical corpus record
Heliand manuscript C, Herod and his host
hōti / hōti / Heliand composition circa 830–840; Cotton witness mid or second half of the tenth century
Altsächsisches Wörterbuch — hatōn and hėttiandreporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗06
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