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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 "going" by prothesis of the [k], kiōn.
Parallels
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
It is not clear whether the etymology goes back to Herodian or was added later on. As a matter of fact, κίω was itself derived from εἶμι (see κίω / εἶμι), so that this etymology is not different from the etymology deriving κίων from κίω (which goes back to Herodian): it maybe that Herodian's explanation was that κίων comes from κιών "going", participle of ἔκιον, and that the thematic aorist ἔκιον, κιεῖν itself was from εἶμι with one letter added, the initial [k]. In that case the compiler mistook for two different etymologies what was in fact a unique etymology, κίων comes from κιών which comes from the participle of εἶμι.