εὖ + ὁδός

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Word-form

εὐδία

Transliteration (Word)

eudia

English translation (word)

clear weather

Transliteration (Etymon)

eu + hodos

English translation (etymon)

well + road

Author

Orion

Century

5 AD

Source

idem

Ref.

Etymologicum, epsilon, p. 58

Ed.

F. Sturz, Orionis Thebani etymologicon, Leipzig, Weigel, 1820

Quotation

Εὐδία, συγκοπῇ. εὐωδία γὰρ ἐστί.

Translation (En)

Eudia "clear weather", by syncope, for it is a *euōdia "safe journey"

Comment

Compositional etymology. It is a functional etymology: the function of a nice weather is to bring the necessary conditions for a safe journey. The etymology requires one formal change, the loss of the initial vowel of the second member

Parallels

Etym. Gudianum, epsilon, p. 553 (Εὐδία· ... εὐοδία τις οὖσα καὶ ἐν συγκοπῇ εὐδία); Etym. Gudianum Additamenta, epsilon, p. 553 (Εὐδία· συγκοπῇ, εὐοδία τις οὖσα); Etym. Magnum, Kallierges, p. 389 (Εὔδιος καὶ εὐδία: Ἡ τοῦ ἀέρος ἠρεμία, καὶ κυρίως ἀβροχία· παρὰ τὸ δεύω, τὸ βρέχω, δευΐα· καὶ κατὰ μετάθεσιν, εὐδία· ἢ ἀπὸ τοῦ εὕδω εὐδία· δοκεῖ γὰρ κοιμᾶσθαι ὁ ἀὴρ, ὥς φησιν Ὅμηρος, ‘ὄφρ’ εὕδῃσι μένος βορέαο καὶ ἄλλων | ζαχρειῶν ἀνέμων’. Ἢ ὅτι ὁ Ζεὺς σημαίνει καὶ τὸν οὐρανόν· καὶ εὔδιος, ὁ αἴθριος. Ἢ εὐοδία τὶς ἐστὶ, χρήσιμος τοῖς ὁδοιποροῦσιν· ἢ σύνθετόν ἐστι τὸ εὔδιος παρὰ τὸ Δία, ἵν’ ᾖ ὁ εὐάερος· Δία γὰρ καὶ τὸν ἀέρα φησὶ Πλάτων ὁ κωμικός· ‘Ἀὴρ, ὃν ἄν τις ὀνομάσειε καὶ Δία’); Etym. Symeonis, epsilon 899 (Εὐδία· ἡ τοῦ ἀέρος ἠρεμία, κυρίως ἀβροχία· παρὰ τὸ δεύω τὸ βρέχω, δευΐα· καὶ κατὰ μετάθεσιν εὐδία· ἢ ἀπὸ τοῦ εὕδω εὐδία. Δοκεῖ γὰρ κοιμᾶσθαι ὁ ἀήρ, οἷον· ὄφρ’ εὕδῃσι μένος Βορέαο· ἢ ὅτι ὁ Ζεὺς σημαίνει καὶ τὸν οὐρανόν· καὶ εὔδιος, ὁ αἴθριος. Ἢ εὐοδία τις οὖσα, χρήσιμος τοῖς ὁδοιποροῦσι); Ps.-Zonaras, Lexicon, epsilon, p. 906 (Εὐδία καὶ εὔδιος. ἡ τοῦ ἀέρος ἠρεμία. κυρίως δὲ ἡ ἀβροχία. [παρὰ τὸ δεύω, τὸ βρέχω, δευΐα καὶ κατὰ μετάθεσιν εὐδία. —ὄφρ’ εὕδῃσι μένος Βορέαο καὶ ἄλλων | ζαχρείων ἀνέμων.])

Modern etymology

Compound of εὐ- "good" and *diew- "sky"

Persistence in Modern Greek

MG still has ευδία as a learned word

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