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Δᾰναοί

*danaoi

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What it meant

1. Δαναοί · Danaoi — Beekes

Δαναοί [m.pl.] “Danaans’, a Greek tribe (Argos), used by Homer as a general name for the Greeks. According to an ancient tradition, they took their name from king Danaos, who came from Egypt. < pG> *ETYM Kretschmer Glotta 24 (1936): 15ff. sees in the Danaoi the people of the Scythian king Tanaus, who in the 15" c. came to Argos. Kretschmer also compared the river namesTanais and Donau, and the Indo-Iranian ethnonym … — [Beekes, s.v. Δαναοί, p. 349]

2. Δαναοί · Danaoi — Chantraine

Δαναοί : m. pl. nom d’une tribu grecque, employé également par Homère pour désigner les Grecs cn général ; la légende rattache le nom au roi d'Argos Danaos venu d'Égypte. Superlatif Δαναώτατος (Ar.}. Dérivés Δανάιδες filles de Danaos, Δαναΐδαι fils de Danaos. Hypothèse de Kretschmer, αἱ. 24, 1936, 15 sqq. — [Chantraine, s.v. Δαναοί, p. 265]

3. Δαναοί · Danaoi — Frisk

Δαναοί m. pl. “Danaer’, griechischer Stammesname (Argos), von Homer als Gesamtname für die Griechen gebraucht. Nach einer alten Überlieferung hätten die Danaer ihren Namen von dem aus Ägypten stammenden König Danaos bezogen. — Kretschmer Glotta 24, 15ff. sieht in den Danaern die Leute des Skythenkönigs Tanaus, die im 15. Jahrh. auch nach Argos gekommen und dort mit den Griechen verschmolzen wären. Hierher nach … — [Frisk, s.v. Δαναοί, p. 379]

4. Δᾰναοί · Danaoi — LSJ

the Danaäns, the Greeks, the sons, descendants of Danaus, his daughters

the Danaäns, subjects of Δάναος, king of Argos, but in Il. 1.42, al., for the Greeks generally (but expl. as = νεκροί (cf. δάνος (B)), EM 247.49): Com. Sup. Δαναώτατος Ar. Fr. 259:—Δαναΐδαι, ῶν, οἱ, the sons or descendants of Danaus, E. Ph. 466:—Δαναΐδες, αἱ, his daughters, name of a play of A.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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