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Etymology edit

From Lydian [script needed] (*luwdja, Luwia), where the Lydians came to live after being driven away by the Phrygians.[1] Here the -d- is result of affrication of proto-Luwian *-j-. Cognate to Hittite [script needed] (Lu-ú-i-ya, Luwia).

The name's ultimate origin is unclear. Beekes suggests that they received the name of the area's original inhabitants (Pre-Greek/substrate), as they were originally called Μαίονες (Maíones).[1] It was connected by Josephus to Lûḏîm (Hebrew לודים) and by Hippolytus to Ludim, son of Mizraim.[2] It could instead ultimately be an endonym from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- (people).[3] Also see Lydia.

Pronunciation edit

 

Proper noun edit

Λῡδός (Lūdósm (genitive Λῡδοῦ); second declension

  1. Lydus, legendary first king of Lydia

Noun edit

Λῡδός (Lūdósm (genitive Λῡδοῦ); second declension

  1. an inhabitant of Lydia; a Lydian

Inflection edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Greek: Λυδός (Lydós)
  • Latin: Lȳdus

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 876
  2. ^ Calmet, Augustin (1832). Dictionary of the Holy Bible. Crocker and Brewster. p. 648.
  3. ^ “Archived copy”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], 2020 February 5 (last accessed), archived from the original on 5 February 2020
  • Λυδός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Λυδός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Λυδός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,016