Ὄλυμπος

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

Probably cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀄𐀬𐀠𐀊𐀍 (u-ru-pi-ja-jo, description of men, possibly ethnical), which may indicate original /u/ in the anlaut.

According to Beekes, Pre-Greek. Suspecting originally an appellative word for “mountain” ολύ- (olú-), he tentatively identified the suffix *-ump-, and the proto-form *Ulump-.[1]

According to Janda,[2] a compound of the PIE roots *wel- (“to turn, wind; to enclose, wrap, encase”) and *pah₂- (“to protect, herd”), more precisely from the heteroclitic *wéluṛ ~ *welun- (“wrapping”), which directly gave Ancient Greek εἶλαρ (eîlar, “covering, shelter, defence, bulwark”), ὄλυνος (ólunos, “the rubbed off and discarded in the course of cleaning”), ὄλυνθος (ólunthos, “unripe fig”) and ὄλυρα (ólura, “amelcorn”). Further cognates include ἔλυμος (élumos, “millet; sheath, case, etui”), ἔλυτρον (élutron, “cover, case, sheath”), Albanian valle (“a kind of circular dance”), Russian вал (val, “billow, roller; rampart”), Proto-Germanic *waluz (“staff, stick”), Sanskrit वरुण (varuṇa, “ocean, sun, the gods”) and ऊर्मि (ūrmi, “wave, billow”), Latin vallus (“stake, pale; palisade”) and volvo (“to roll”). For more see εἰλύω (eilúō, “to wrap, enfold”).

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Ὄλῠμπος • (Ólumpos) m (genitive Ὀλῠ́μπου); second declension

  1. Olympus (a mountain in Greece)
  2. A mountain in Mysia, now called Uludağ

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Ὄλῠμπος; τοῦ Ὀλῠ́μπου (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Ὄλῠμπος
ho Ólumpos
Genitive τοῦ Ὀλῠ́μπου
toû Olúmpou
Dative τῷ Ὀλῠ́μπῳ
tôi Olúmpōi
Accusative τὸν Ὄλῠμπον
tòn Ólumpon
Vocative Ὄλῠμπε
Ólumpe
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Derived terms

Descendants

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “Ὄλυμπος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1073-4
  2. ^ Janda, Michael (2005) Elysion. Entstehung und Entwicklung der griechischen Religion (in German), Innsbruck, pages 318–321

Further reading

  • “Ὄλυμπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Ὄλυμπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “Ὄλυμπος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • “Ὄλυμπος”, 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 1,019
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