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τού

tou

drone

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What it meant

1. τοῦ · tou — Beekes

τοῦ ἄνθρυσκον formation from the language of sailors, modelled after animal names in -ηδών (see Chantraine 1933: 360f.). A difficult problem is the relation to Germanic and Balto-Slavic words for ‘drone’: OS dren, drano, MoHG Drohne, Lith. tranas; on this, see Kuiper 1956: 222. — [Beekes, s.v. τοῦ, p. 153]

2. του · tou — Frisk

του, τᾶ- in Akk. τόν, τήν, dor. τάν, τό, Nom. pl. τοί, ταί (ep. poet. dor. u.a.), τά usw. --- Altererbtes Demonstrativum, im Griech. vorw. als Artikel gebraucht, mit aind. tdm, täm, tad, Nom. pl. m. ἐό usw. identisch, auch germ. z.B. got. ban-a, bo, Pat-a, Dai; mit neugebildetem Nom. sg. lit. täs, ta, aksl. ts, ta, to u.a.m., idg. *o-, tä-, Akk. *lo-m, tä-m, to-d, pl. *or usw. — Weitere Formen aus verschiedenen … — [Frisk, s.v. του, p. 1879]

3. τού · tou — LSJ

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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