ἰρείνα

Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `peace, time of peace' (Il.), cf. Trümpy Fachausdrücke 183ff., later `peace-treaty', in the LXX also `(wish) of blessing' as Hebraism (Wackernagel IF 31, 263f. = Kl. Schr. 2, 1240f.); as name of a goddess daughter of Zeus and Themis (Hes.).

Other forms: ἰράνα (Dor., Boeot., Arc. etc.), also ἰρήνα (Gort. II^a: χ[ἱ]ρήνας gen.; asp. sec.), ἰρείνα Thess.), εἰρήνα (Delph. IV^a, Pi., B.), εἰράνα (NWGgr. etc.), εἴρηνᾰ (Aeol., gramm.), Εἰρήνα, - άνη (EN, Lycia)

Compounds: As 1. member in εἰρηνο-ποιός (X.) a. o.

Derivatives: εἰρηναῖος `peaceful' (Hdt.), εἰρηνικός `belonging to peace' (Att. hell.; after πολεμικός; Chantraine, Études sur le vocab. grec 151); denomin. verb εἰρηνεύω `keep peace, live in peace' (Pl.) with εἰρήνευσις (Iamb.), εἰρηνέω `id.' (Arist., after πολεμέω). - On the Lacon. PN Ϝειράνα s. Kretschmer Glotta 7, 332, Bechtel Άντίδωρον 155.

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]

Etymology: The many dialect forms cannot be combined under one form but must be loans with incomplete adaptation (Leumann Hom. Wörter 277 w. n. 27). The original anlaut is perh. after a hesitating suggestion of Wackernagel IF 25, 327 n. 1 (Kl. Schr. 1023 a. 1) a in Ionic and elsewhere pronounced open ἰ̄ρ-, which was in Attic first rendered by ἐ-, later by εἰρ-; the Attic orthography became dominant. The meaning of - ρήνη, -ρά̄νᾱ etc. is uncertain; cf. Schwyzer 189. - No etymology; Pre-Greek origin is very prob. already because of the ending ( Άθήνη, Μυκήνη etc.); thus e. g. Chantraine Formation 206). - Further see Brugmann and Keil Sächs. Ber. 68: 3, 4 (1916); Kretschmer Glotta 10, 238f.; further Trümpy l.c.

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