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A grammar of the Homeric dialect - Wilbourhall.org

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130.] PROPER NAMES NUMERALS. 125<br />

Note that <strong>the</strong> gods whose names are Compound, as Ai<br />

Ar]-fjn]Tr]p, Ylepa--epe-/cA.oj, for Tlarpo-KX^s, 4>epe-KAerys,<br />

20ve-\os for 20ei>e'-Aao-?, Atyi-o-0os for AlyL-a-0vr]s, MevecrOevs<br />

for Mtve-a-Oevrjs ; cp. Evpvpftrjs (Od. 9. 509), patronymic <strong>of</strong><br />

Evpu/zeScoy. In <strong>the</strong>se names <strong>the</strong> shorter form has (or<br />

had<br />

originally) <strong>the</strong> character <strong>of</strong> a { nick-name/ or pet name.<br />

In general; however, <strong>the</strong> ' pet ' name is formed by dropping<br />

one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> two Stems altoge<strong>the</strong>r<br />

: <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r Stem taking a<br />

Suffix in its place"*.<br />

Thus we have in Homer <strong>the</strong> names<br />

in -TO-S, as r/ EKa-ros (for eKarry-/3oXos), Evpv-Tos (Evpv-jSdrrjs,<br />

TZvpv-a\o$, &c.), "I

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