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κίων: ι ἢ παρὰ τὸ κίειν, ὅ ἐστιν εἰς ὕψος πορεύεσθαι, ἢ παρὰ τὸ ἰών μετοχὴν προσθήκῃ τοῦ κ κίων
Translation (En)
Kiōn "pillar": from kiein, that is, "to go" upwards. Or from the participle iōn, by prothesis of the [k], kiōn.
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Orion, Etymologicum, kappa, p. 83 (Κίων. ἀπὸ τοῦ κίειν καὶ ἰέναι. ἢ ὅτι βέβηκέ τι ἐπ’ αὐτῷ, οἷον ἐπιπορεύεται); Etym. parvum, kappa 47 (Κίων· παρὰ τὸ κίειν εἰς ὕψος· ἢ παρὰ τὴν ἰὼν μετοχὴν πλεονασμῷ τοῦ Κ κίων); Etym. Gudianum, kappa, p. 323 (Κίων, διὰ τοῦ ι, ὁ λίθος, ἀπὸ τοῦ κίειν καὶ ἀνιέναι εἰς ὕψος· ἢ παρὰ τὴν ἰὼν μετοχὴν γίνεται ἴων καὶ κίων); ibid., kappa, p. 324 (Κίων, ἐκ τοῦ κίω ἔκιον, καὶ κιὼν μετοχὴ ἀορίστου β ); Etym. Magnum, Kallierges, p. 514 (Κίων: Ὁ λίθος· ἀπὸ τοῦ κίειν καὶ ἀνιέναι εἰς ὕψος· ἢ παρὰ τὴν ἰὼν μετοχὴν, πλεονασμῷ τοῦ κ); Eustathius, Comm. Il. 1, 52 Van der Valk (ἐκ δὲ τοῦ κιών ἐξέδραμεν ὄνομα ὁ κίων, ἀναγκαίως αὐτὸς βαρυτονηθείς); Ps.-Zonaras, Lexicon, kappa, p. 1209 (Κίων. ἀπὸ τοῦ κίειν καὶ ἀνιέναι εἰς ὕψος. παρὰ τὸ τὴν ἰὼν μετοχὴν γέγονεν ἴων καὶ κίων); Scholia in Sophoclem, Aj. 108a (κίων ὁ λίθος παρὰ τὸ κίειν εἰς ὕψος. ἢ παρὰ τὸ ἰὼν μετοχήν)
Comment
The word is derived from a homonym: the noun κίων "pillar" is assumed to come from the participle κιών "going", the substantivation accounting for the backward move of the accent. As a pillar has little to do with a motion verb, the solution was found in a conversion into a vertical motion: the pillar cannot move, but it rises. An alternative explanation is that the pillar is a pedestal for something, which "walks" on it (Orion).