ὕπενες εἰς τετάρτην

ὕπενες· εἰς τετάρτην, Hsch.

Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `anniversary, year' (Il.; Risch Mus. Helv. 3, 254).

Derivatives: ἐνιαύσιος, Delph. Coan - τιος `(one)year, a year long, every year' (π 454), ἐνιαυσιαῖος `a year long' (Arist.; s. Chantr. Form. 49); denomin. verb ἐνιαυτίζομαι, - ίζω `pass a year' (Pl. Com.).

Origin: XX [etym. unknown]

Etymology: A new expression for `year', prop. `year-day' (cf. Bechtel Lex. s. v.). - For the formation cf. κονι-ορ-τός, βου-λυ-τός etc. (Schwyzer 501), it seems to contain a word for `year', ἔνος (H., Sch. Theoc. 7, 147), seen in several compounds: δίενος `διετής' (Thphr.), ἑπτάενον ἑπταετῆ H., τετράενος (Call.); as σ-stem τετράενες n. (Theocr. 7, 147), ὕπενες εἰς τετάρτην H., s. also ἦνις. The same word prob. also in Baltic and Germanic, e. g. Lith. pér-nai `πέρυσι' (* per-h₁n-, with acute from the laryngeal), Russ. loni \< * ol-ni `of the past year', Goth. fram fair-nin jera `from for- (= past) year'. - The 2. member in ἰαύω, either the present-stem ἐν-ιαυτός (Meillet MSL 23, 274f.) or with the verbal root (cf. κονι-ορ-τός etc.s. above) with - ι- as compound vowel [hardly possible]: ἐν-ι-αυ-τός (Schwyzer 424 n. 5, 448). But a meaning *"Jahresruhe" (`years rest') is not quite clear. - After Brugmann IF 15, 87ff., 17, 319f. and many others to ἐνιαύω as *"Rast-, Ruhestation der Sonne, Jahreswende"; a το-formation from a present would be remarkable. Hardly with Prellwitz a. o. from ἐνι αὑτῳ̃ "at the same point (as in spring)"; diff. Murray JournofHellStud. 71, 120. Doubts in Szemerényi, Sprache 11 (1965) 7f.

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