Κολωνέται

κολωνός, ὁ,

A = κολώνη, hill, h.Cer.272, 298, Hes.Fr.122.1, Hdt.4.181, 7.225, etc.; κ. λίθων heap of stones, Id.4.92, X.An.4.7.25; hilltop, peak, A.R.1.1120.

II Colonus, deme of Attica, sacred to the hero Colonus ( ἱππότης K. S.OC59); Οἰδίπους ἐπὶ Κολωνῷ, title of play by Sophocles:—hence [full] Κολωνεύς, έως, ὁ, one of the deme Colonos, IG2.944.48.

2 K. ἀγοραῖος, mound in the Athenian

ἀγορά, Κολωνόν.., οὐ τὸν ἀγοραῖον, ἀλλὰ τὸν τῶν ἱππέων Pherecr.134

; labourers were hired there, Com.Adesp. 35 D., hence called [full] Κολωνέται or [full] Κολωνῖται, Hyp.Fr.8.

Grammatical information: f.,

Meaning: `hill, hight, stone-, tomb-hill etc.' (Il., Pi., S.), also as GN (town in Troas, Att. demos);

Other forms: κολωνός m. (h. Cer., Hdt., X., A. R.)

Compounds: as 2. member in Καλλι-κολώνη hill near Troy (Il.; Schwyzer 453 n. 5), ὑψι-κόλωνος `carrying high' (Opp.).

Derivatives: κολωνία (in wrong place; so for - ώνα? [Schmidt]) τάφος. Ήλεῖοι H. (Scheller Oxytonierung 56); from the demos-name Κολωνέται pl. (Hyperid.; Fraenkel Nom. ag. 2, 128 n. 1).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [544] * kolH-n- `rise, height'.

Etymology: κολών-η and κολων-ός presuppose an old n-stem, which is also seen in Lit. káln-as `mountain', Lat. collis `hill' \< * coln-is, OE hyll, NEngl. hill \< PGm. * huln-i-. The n-stem * kolH-(e)n-, *kl̥H-n- is an agent noun "the highranging" of a primary verb `rise up', which with (orig. only present forming?) -d- is seen in Lat. - cellō \< *- cel-d-ō. On suffixal - ώνη, - ωνός s. Chantraine Formation 207f. - The analysis of Brugmann (Grundr.² 2: 1, 280), Specht ( Ursprung 137f.) ( κολώνη, - ός \< IE. * kolō[u]- no- an u-stem alternating with the n-stem in Lith. káln-as (in lat. colu-men), is not to be preferred. - Pok. 544, W.-Hofmann s. collis a. celsus, Fraenkel Lit. et. Wb. s. kálnas.

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