Beekes - Etymological Dictionary of Greek

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aiT)6c; [adj.] unknown; 'strong'? (ll.). ?
.VAR Also ai·lOe;; aiELe; (Theopomp. Col.), uiaEv· Einpa YLvoflEva, TOUe; £v T4J MaTL a-ruAaYflOUe; TOU £Aalou 'what is in the food, or
drops of olive oil in ilie water' (H.). Denominative verb ai8aAOw 'to make sooty',
med. -OOflaL 'to soot up' (E., Lyc.); ai8aAWOELe; 'clouds of sooty smoke' (Max. Tyr. 41,
4), perhaps directly from a'l8aAOe;.
.ETYM See .. a'l8w.
ai81lP, -tpoc; [f., m.] 'clear sky, heaven' (ll.). IE *h2eidh- 'kindle, ignite'
.COMP On ai8p and a'l8pT] as a second member (e.g. in lJ1tal8pLOe;, u1taL8poe;) see
Sommer 1948: 151f.
• DER a'l8pT], -a. 'id.' (ll.); ai8plT], -la 'clear sky, nice weather'; a,(8pLOe;, -ov [adj.] 'of the
sky, bright' (lA); the ntr. a'(8pLov, diminutive ai8plOLoV was used in imperial times as
a folk-etymological adaptation of Lat. atrium.
aI8poe; 'fresh, cold air' ( 318 a'l8p4> KaL KafluT4> OEoflT]flEVOV). Cf. ai8pci· XELflUEL 'to
expose to or pass the winter' (H.), ai8pLvoV· 1tPW·lVOV 'early' (H.); improbable
Bouquiaus-Simon Ant. class. 31 (1962): 25ff.
With full-grade of the suffix ai8EpLOe; 'in the air, heavenly' (trag.), beside which rare
and late ai8EpWOT]e;, ai8EpLWOT]e;, ai8EplTT]e;, ai8EpOoflaL.
i8apoe; 'cheerful, bright' (Ale.) may contain an old ablauting form of the root. The
verb i8alVELV (A. D., H.) could point to an rln-stem.
.ETYM Generally derived from .. «'(8w; perhaps the formation was influenced by ap.
Ai8iom:c; [m.pl.] ethnonym, 'Ethiopians'(?). PG(S)
.DIAL Myc. PN a-i-ti-jo-qo I AithiokWsl (or 1-0-/); for the u-stem in Me-to-qe-u, Wono-qe-we
(/W oinokWewei/) cf. Ai8Lo1tEe; (Hom.).
• ETYM Since antiquity explained as '(people) with burnt faces'. In Beekes Glotta 73
(1995-1996): 12-34, I objected that ai8- always means 'burning' in the sense of
'brilliant, emitting light' (cf. a18o'\l) , and never 'burnt'. Also, the -L- is unexplained,
and -01t- is a typical substrate suffix (as opposed to 'face' = -W1t-). Therefore, the
word must be compared with ethnonyms like pU01tEe;, OA01tEe; and is of Pre-Greek
origin.
a'lOouaa [f.] 'portico' (ll.); also a plant, cf . .. a'(8w. PG(v)
.VAR a'l8ouooa (Hdn. Gr. 2, 919).
.ETYM Generally explained as a ptc. of .. a'(8w meaning 'glowing, place where the sun
burns' or 'place where fire can be kindled', which is hardly convincing. A better
explanation is that of Fur.: 19754, who deems it a substrate word, as a technical term
of building, because of the form with -00-. The form .. aiowooa confirms this; it can
hardly be a mistake for a'l8ouoa (which would imply three mistakes), and it has -00-.
Of course, a folk-etymological connection with .. a'l8w is likely.
a'lOw [v.] 'to kindle', intr. med. 'burn (with light)' (ll.). IE *h2eidh- 'kindle'
• v AR Only presen t.
.COMP Cf . .. Ai8lom:e;. On KaK-L8e; see on KEYKEL s.v . .. KUyKavOe; .
.DER a18oe; [m.] 'burning heat' (E.) = Skt. edha- [m.] 'firewood', OHG eit [m.], OE ad
'blaze, pyre'; ai8oe; 'sparkling, glowing', also 'dark-colored'; also a'l8wv, -wvoe; (ll.)
and aI80'\l (on the mgs. see Beekes Glotta 73 (1995-1996): 15-17).
a18oe; [n.] 'fire' (A. R.); ai8ELe; 'sooty' (Nic.), also ai8e; 'burning' (Cratin. 88), if this
does not stand for ai8e; from ai8ELe;; u'l8Lvoe; (H., EM).
Perhaps related is ai8oALKEe; 'pustule, pimple' (Hp., Gal.), cf. 1Wfl