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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Lydian (*luwdja, “Luwia”), where the Lydians came to live after being driven away by the Phrygians.[1] Here the -d- is result of affrication of proto-Luwian *-j-. Cognate to Hittite (Lu-ú-i-ya, “Luwia”).
The name's ultimate origin is unclear. Beekes suggests that they received the name of the area's original inhabitants (Pre-Greek/substrate), as they were originally called Μαίονες (Maíones).[1] It was connected by Josephus to Lûḏîm (Hebrew לודים) and by Hippolytus to Ludim, son of Mizraim.[2] It could instead ultimately be an endonym from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- (“people”).[3] Also see Lydia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lyː.dós/ → /lyˈðos/ → /liˈðos/
Proper noun
Λῡδός • (Lūdós) m (genitive Λῡδοῦ); second declension
- Lydus, legendary first king of Lydia
Noun
Λῡδός • (Lūdós) m (genitive Λῡδοῦ); second declension
- an inhabitant of Lydia; a Lydian
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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, page 876
- ^ Calmet, Augustin (1832). Dictionary of the Holy Bible. Crocker and Brewster. p. 648.
- ^ “Archived copy”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), 2020 February 5 (last accessed), archived from the original on 5 February 2020
- “Λυδός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Λυδός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Λυδός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,016