Σεμέλη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
- From the ancient Greek words σείω (seíō, “shake”) + μέλος (mélos, “member, part of the body”), because she was shaking when she saw Zeus coming to her as fire.
- Otherwise from a Thracian *semela, *semla (“earth”) continuing Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm (“earth”), thus an Earth Goddess. See also Phrygian Ζεμελω (Zemelō) and ζεμελως (zemelōs, “man”), Lithuanian žemė, Latvian zeme, Bulgarian земля (zemlja), Russian земля (zemlja), and Δημήτηρ (Dēmḗtēr).[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /se.mé.lɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /seˈme.le̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /seˈme.li/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /seˈme.li/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /seˈme.li/
Inflection
References
- Duridanov, Ivan Vasiliev (1985) Die Sprache der Thraker [The Language of the Thracians] (in German), Hieronymus Verlag, →ISBN, pages 84-85
Further reading
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,025
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag
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