Αὖτις δὲ περιπλομένου ἐνιαυτοῦ (Hesiod, Op. 386): on the formation of ἐνιαυτός - Sorbonne Université
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Αὖτις δὲ περιπλομένου ἐνιαυτοῦ (Hesiod, Op. 386): on the formation of ἐνιαυτός

Abstract

The article argues that ἐνιαυτός "anniversary" is a back-formation on the adjective ἐνιαύσιος, attested in Mycenaean as a proper name. It must be compared with the adverb πέρυσι "last year". The sequence -υτι-ος (-υσι-ος in assibilating dialects) preserves the locative of the zero grade *ut- of ϝέτος "year". The αυ- is assumed to be the adverb αὖ "anew, back", the anniversary being the "returning year". The compound ἐνιαύσιος relies on a phrase *ἐνι αὐτι,, with ἐνι being the locative of an old word for "year" found in the compounds δίενος, τρίενος (Theophrastus). The phrase was univerbated when a derived adjective ἐνιαύτι-ος was formed. Afterwards, after couples like πλοῦτος / πλούσιος, from ἐνιαύσιος was derived the noun ἐνιαυτός as a back-formation.

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hal-03929527 , version 1 (08-01-2023)

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Claire Le Feuvre. Αὖτις δὲ περιπλομένου ἐνιαυτοῦ (Hesiod, Op. 386): on the formation of ἐνιαυτός. D. Gunkel, S. Jamison, A. Mercado, K. Yoshida. Vina Diem Celebrent: Studies in Linguistics and Philology in Honor of Brent Vine, Beech Stave, p. 191-201, 2018, 978-0-9895142-5-5. ⟨hal-03929527⟩
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