mawrui

Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `male relative of the mother, uncle, grandfather' (Il.).

Other forms: Dor. μάτρως, - ωος a. -ω (further forms in Schwyzer 480 and in LSJ).

Derivatives: μητρώϊος, -ῳ̃ος (Dor. μα-) prop. `belonging to the μήτρωες, i.e. to mothers family' (τ 410), then directly referring to μήτηρ `what belongs to the mother, maternal' (A.); τὸ Μητρῳ̃ον (sc. ἱερόν) `the temple of the Great Mother Cybele', in Athens used as state archive (Att.); τὰ Μητρῳ̃α (sc. ἱερά) `the temple-service of Cybele' (D. H.); with μητρῳακός `belonging to the service of Cybele' and μητρῴζω `celebrate the Cybele-feasts' (sp.) ; μητρωϊκός = μητρικός (Delos II^a). -- Side form μήτρων (Dor. μά-), - ωνος m. (Asia Minor inscr.; originating from the acc. μήτρων). -- μητρυιά, Dor. μα-, ion. - ιή f. `step-mother' (Il.) with μητρυι-ώδης `step-motherly' (Plu.), - άζω `act as step-moher' (Gloss.); as joking innovation μητρυιός m. `stepfather' (Theopomp. Com., Hyp.).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [700] *meh₂tēr `mother', *meh₂tr-ōu-s `relative of the mother'

Etymology: If one connects, acc. to the communis opinio, μητρυιά with μήτρως, for which there is in fact no decisive evidence, we must start from a long - ōu- ( \> ō), of which - υ- in μητρυιά would be the zero grade (cf. Schwyzer 479 f.). With μητρυιά (prob. for older *μήτρυιᾰ, gen. - υιᾶς; Wackernagel KZ 33, 574 [= Kl. Schr. 2, 1207] n. l, Schwyzer 469 w. n. 8) cf. the close Armenian form mawru, gen. mawrui (\< *mātruu̯i-) `stepmother, mother-in-law', perhaps also the far off Westgermanic form OE modrige `sister's mother' (PGm. *mōdruu̯i̯ōn- \< IE *mātruu̯i̯ā?) a direct correspondence; the formation must then be from pre-Greek. A hypothesis on the origin (after the old word for `mother-in-law', Lat. socrus = Gr. *ἑκρύς ?; s. ἑκυρός, -ά) by Wackernagel Festgabe Kaegi 44 (= Kl. Schr. 1, 472) n. 2. -- Cf. the lit. on μήτηρ. Cf. Kuiper, Notes 56ff.

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