Έτεο-κλῆς

Grammatical information: adj.

Meaning: `true, real', mostly in sing. n. ἐτεόν ( ἐτεά pl. Υ 255, reading quite uncertain); also as adv. `really' (Hom., Theoc.); in question-sentences `really' (Ar.); ἐτεῃ̃ adv. `in reality', also nom. ἐτεή f. `reality' (Democr.).

Dialectal forms: Myc. PN etewokereweijo from Ε᾽τεϜοκλέϜης.

Compounds: Often as 1. member in names like Έτεό-κρητες pl. `Kreter stricto sensu, original Cretans' (τ 176; cf. Risch IF 59, 25), Έτε-άνωρ (Thera VII<sup>a</sup>), ΈτέϜ-ανδρος (Kypros VII<sup>a</sup>), cf. Sommer Nominalkomp. 185 and 199; Έτεο-κλῆς (Tegea etc.; rendered in Hitt. Tau̯ag(a)lau̯aš; cf. Schwyzer 79); also ἐτεό-κριθος f. `real κριθή' (Thphr.; determinative comp. formally adapted to a bahuvrihi; vgl. Strömberg Pflanzennamen 28f.).

Derivatives: Beside it ἔτυμος `true, real' (Il.; prose has ἀληθής) with ἐτυμό-δρυς f. `real oak' (Thphr.); τὸ ἔτυμον `the true (original) meaning of a wod, the etymology' (Arist.); as 1. member in ἐτυμο-λογέω `discover the true meaning' with ἐτυμολογία, - λογικός (hell.; formally after ψευδο-λογέω a. o.; cf. Schwyzer 726); ἐτυμό-της = τὸ ἔτυμον (Str.). - Expressive reduplicated formation with rhythmical lengthening of the original first syllable ἐτήτυμος `true, real, authentic' (Il.); the form remains surprising (cf. Schwyzer 447 n. 2; diff. Bq s. ἐτά) with ἐτητυμία (Call., AP). Lengthened form ἐτυμώνιον ἀληθές H.; cf. Chantraine Formation 42f.

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [??] * set- `stable, true?'

Etymology: For the ending cf. κενε(Ϝ)ός `empty, idle'; so ἐτε(Ϝ)ός supposes a diphthongal u-stem, of which the zero grade is seen in the enlarged ἔτυ-μος (pattern?); beside this u-stem ἐτάζω, ἐτά ἀληθῆ, ἀγαθά H. seem to point to an o-stem. - Further analysis uncertain; s. ἐτάζω. On the history of ἐτεός etc. Frisk GHÅ 41 (1935): 3, 15ff. - De Lamberterie, RPh 71 (1997)160, follows Meillet in assuming * set-u- (supposed in Arm. stoyg `real'); he further connects ὅσιος (s.v.) from * sot-.

Page in Frisk: 1,580-581