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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, from Proto-Indo-European *Hóytos (“oath”), like Proto-Germanic *aiþaz (“oath”) and Proto-Celtic *oitos. As an alternative to *h₁ey- (“to go”) as the root, he compares Avestan 𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬀 (aēta, “punishment, guilt”) (which was identified by Bartolomae under an original meaning “part, share”) along with Ancient Greek αἶσα (aîsa, “destiny, fate”) and αἴτιος (aítios, “guilty, culpable”). Thus, this noun may rather derive from Proto-Indo-European *h₂oy-to- (“what has been granted”), which is semantically more convincing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ôi̯.tos/ → /ˈy.tos/ → /ˈi.tos/
Noun
οἶτος • (oîtos) m (genitive οἴτου); second declension
- fate, doom (in negative sense)
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Further reading
- “οἶτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “οἶτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “οἶτος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- οἶτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- οἶτος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN