Νηρεύς
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Of uncertain origin. Most theories are based on Nereus being a sea god:
- According to Fick (1890), from a Proto-Indo-European *ner- and related to Lithuanian nérti (“to dive”), nėrõvė (“mermaid”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
- Related to νηρόν (nērón, “fresh water”), itself a contracted form from νεαρός (nearós, “new, fresh”). Alternatively related to νηρόν (nērón, “low-lying”), which Beekes considers to be of unclear origin.
- Beekes (2010) favors a Pre-Greek origin, in view of the ending suffix -εύς (-eús) as well as the semantic category of mythological names.
It is possible that the name Νηρεύς (Nēreús) is a back-formation from Νηρῇς (Nērêis, “a Nereid”), the name of his daughters, as the latter hold much more significance in Greek mythology.[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /nɛː.rěu̯s/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ne̝ˈrews/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /niˈreɸs/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /niˈrefs/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /niˈrefs/
- Hyphenation: Νη‧ρεύς
Proper noun
Νηρεύς • (Nēreús) m (genitive Νηρέως); third declension
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “Νηρεύς, -έως”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1017
Further reading
- “Νηρεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Νηρεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Νηρεύς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3517 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,018
- Νηρεύς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette