Aḫḫijavā-Urk

Grammatical information: pl. m.

Meaning: name of a Greek tribe (Il.).

Other forms: sg. Άχαιός `Achaean', f. Άχαιαί, sg. -ά (s. Schwyzer 460).

Derivatives: Άχαιΐς, - ίδος f. `the land of the A.' (sc. γαῖα) or `the Achaean f.' (sc. γυνή), also Άχαιϊάς f. (Il.); Άχαιϊκός, Att. Άχᾱϊκός (cf. Schwyzer 265f.) `Achaean'; Άχαιΐη, Att. Άχᾱΐα f. a Thessalian and Peloponnesian region `Achaia'; also a town (Rhodos etc.), perhaps trisyllabic, s. below.

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

Etymology: The name Άχαιοί \< ΆχαιϜοί (cf. Lat. Achīvī) is known from Egyptian sources as 'q'jw'š', read as Aqaiwaša. Also in Hitt. Aḫḫiya, later Ah̯h̯iyawā, from *ΆχαιϜία or *ΆχαίϜα(?); Kretschmer Glotta 21, 227). Against this Sommer ( Aḫḫijavā-Urk., A. u. Sprw., IF 55, 169ff.). The equation is now generally accepted, but the Hittite form has not been satisfactorily explained. (Worthless Finkelberg, Glotta 66, 1988, 127 - 134, who derives the Greek form from Hitt. Ah̯h̯iyawa (!), with h₂y \> χ.) - The name is no doubt a Pre-Greek name ( Akayʷa?). On the historical side Lehmann, Historische Zeitschr. 262, 1996, 1 - 38; Niemeyer Aegaeun 19, 1999, 141 - 155.

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