ἀδηνής ἄκακος

Grammatical information: n. pl.

Meaning: `counsels, plans' (Il.; δῆνος H.).

Compounds: several compounds, mostly only lexically known: ἀδηνής ἄκακος H., EM (from where Semon. 7, 53 for text. ἁληνής), ἀδηνέως (Chios, H.), ἀδανές ἀπρονόητον, ἀδηνείη ἀπειρία, πολυδηνέα πολύβουλον H.

Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] * densos `counsel, high spiritual power[??]'

Etymology: Brugmann Sächs. Ber. 1897, 187 ( Grundr.² 2: 1, 518) assumed *δάνσεα with analogical α from δαῆναι, δαΐφρων (s. vv.) for *δένσεα, *δένσος = Skt. dáṃsas- n. `wonderful craft', Av. daŋhah- n. `adroitness', IE *dénsos beside *dn̥s- in δα-ῆναι, δα-ί-φρων. But one would rather expext *δάος; see the objections in Bechtel Lex. 99 and Lasso de la Vega Emerita 22, 92, who also has semantic problems. (Wackernagel KZ 29, 137 prefers connection with δήω,which is not better.) - Ruijgh, Lingua 25 (1970) 319f. thinks the word is Myc., where * dens- would have given δην- (cf. τελη-(Ϝ)εντ- \< *τελεσ-Ϝεντ-). Also Schmitt, Dicht. 161.

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