θέλω
Word
Validation
No
Word-form
ἐέλδωρ
Word-lemma
Etymon-lemma
Transliteration (Word)
eldōr
English translation (word)
wish
Transliteration (Etymon)
thelō
English translation (etymon)
to be willing
Century
11 AD
Source
idem
Ref.
Etym. Gudianum Additamenta, epsilon, p. 402
Ed.
E.L. de Stefani, Etymologicum Gudianum, fasc. 1 & 2, Leipzig: Teubner, 1:1909; 2:1920 (repr. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 1965)
Quotation
Ἐέλδωρ· ἐκ τοῦ θέλω δέλω, ἐδέλω, καθ’ ὑπερβιβασμὸν ἐέλδωρ
Translation (En)
Eeldōr "wish": from thelō "to be willing", *delō, *edelō, and by metathesis eeldōr
Parallels
Pediasimus, Scholia in Hesiodi Scutum, p. 615 (Ἐέλδωρ λέγεται τὸ ἐπιθύμημα, ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐθέλω ἐθέλωρ· καὶ κατὰ μετάθεσιν τῶν στοιχείων ἐέλθωρ, καὶ τροπῇ τοῦ δασέος θʹ εἰς τὸ μέσον δʹ, ἐέλδωρ. Τινὲς δὲ καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἕλω τὸ προκρίνω αὐτὸ παράγουσι, ψιλοῦσθαι δὲ ἰσχυρίζονται. Ἐπλεόνασε γὰρ τὸ δʹ)
Modern etymology
Derivative of ἔλδομαι
Persistence in Modern Greek
No
Entry By
Le Feuvre
Comment
Derivational etymology parallel to ἔλδομαι / θέλω. It is likely that the assumed derivation is θέλω → *δέλω → ἔλδω (ἔλδομαι) → ἔλδωρ, and that θέλω is not the direct etymon of ἔλδωρ, which is ἔλδω. Thus, it is one of the many cases in which the provided etymon is not the direct etymon of the lemma but the etymon of the etymon. However, in the scholia to the Pseudo-Hesiodic Shield, the etymology does not imply ἔλδομαι and derives ἐέλδωρ directly from ἐθέλω (see Parallels)