ἔρα + αὔω
Word
Validation
No
Word-form
κεραυνός
Word-lemma
Transliteration (Word)
keraunos
English translation (word)
thunderbolt
Transliteration (Etymon)
era + auō
English translation (etymon)
earth + to burn, to light a fire
Century
11 AD
Source
idem
Ref.
Etym. Gudianum, kappa, p. 316
Ed.
F. Sturz, Etymologicum Graecae linguae Gudianum et alia grammaticorum scripta e codicibus manuscriptis nunc primum edita, Leipzig: Weigel, 1818 (repr. Hildesheim: Olms, 1973)
Quotation
Κεραυνὸς, βροντὴ ἢ χάλαζα, παρὰ τὸ καίειν τὴν ἔραν, ἤγουν τὴν γῆν.
Translation (En)
Keraunos "thunderbolt": thunder and hail, from "to burn" (kaiein) the soil (eran), that is to say, the earth
Parallels
There is no parallel
Modern etymology
Derivative of an old r/n-stem form the PIE root *k̑erh2- "to smash, to damage" (Beekes, EDG)
Persistence in Modern Greek
MG still has κεραυνός
Entry By
Le Feuvre
Comment
Compositional etymology, which appears under the form of an elliptic etymology: the real etymon αὔω is substituted by a more frequent synonym καίω. This etymology yields *εραυνός, and the initial /k/ is probably assumed to be an additional consonant that has no incidence on meaning