κηδεσ-τής

Grammatical information: adj.

Meaning: `own, private' (Od.).

Other forms: Dor. Ϝίδιος, Arg. hίδιος

Compounds: Often as 1. member, e. g. ἰδιο-γενής `of one's own kind' (Pl. Plt. 265e; opposite κοινο-γενής), hell..

Derivatives: 1. ἰδιώτης m. `private, layman, uneducated man' (IA; on the formation Chantr. Form. 311, Redard Les noms grecs en - της 28) with f. ἰδιῶτις (hell.); from it ἰδιωτικός `belonging to an ἰδιώτης, common, ordinary, vulgar, vile, uneducated' (IA; Chantraine Ét. sur le vocab. gr. 120 a. 123) and ἰδιωτεύω `act, live on one's own, without respect, be uneducated' with ἰδιωτεία `private life, uneducatedness' (Att.); also ἰδιωτίζω `pronounce in a special way' (Eust.). 2. ἰδιότης, - ητος f. `own character, pecularity' (Pl., X.). 3. ἰδικός = ἴδιος (late). 4. ἰδιόομαι `make one's own, appropriate' (Pl.) with ἰδίωμα `own character, pecularity' (hell.), ἰδίωσις `isolation, appropriation' (Pl., Plu.). 5. ἰδιάζω `be peculiar, live on one's own' (Arist.) with ἰδιαστής, ἰδιασμός (late).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [882] * s(e)ue- refl. pron.

Etymology: Arg. Ϝhεδιεστας = ἰδιώτης (cf. κηδεσ-τής, El. τελεσ-τα) shows for ἴδιος an orig.. *Ϝhεδιος, from the reflexive Ϝhε = ἕ (IE *su̯e) (Schwyzer 226; on ε \> ι 256). Diff., also possible, Schulze KZ 40, 417 n. 6 = Kl. Schr. 74 n. 2, Brugmann IF 16, 491ff., Fraenkel Ling. Posn. 4, 104: to Skt. ví `separate'; Arg. hίδιος then after ἑαυτοῦ etc., ἕκαστος [but vi- is not represented elsewhere in Greek]. - (Not with Specht KZ 68, 47, Ursprung 197 m. n. 2 from *su̯i-dio-.)

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