Μακεδών

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Related to Greek μᾰκεδνός (makednós).[1] Both proper nouns Makedṓn and Makednós are morphologically derived from the Ancient Greek adjective makednós meaning "tall, slim", and are related to the term Macedonia. The adjective is traditionally derived from the Indo-European root *mak- or *meh2k-, meaning "long, slender", cognate with poetic Greek makednós or mēkedanós "long, tall",[2] Doric mãkos and Attic mẽkos "length",[3] Makistos, the mythological eponym of a town in Elis and an epithet of Heracles, Avestan masah "length", Hittite mak-l-ant "thin", Latin macer "meagre" and Proto-Germanic *magraz "lean, meager". The same root and meaning has been duly assigned to the tribal name of the Macedonians,[4] which is commonly explained as having originally meant "the tall ones" or "highlanders" in Greek.[5]

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Noun

Μᾰκεδών (Makedṓn) m (genitive Μᾰκεδόνος); third declension

  1. an inhabitant of Macedonia; a Macedonian

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References

  1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “μακεδνός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 894
  2. Article μακεδνός in: Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, Henry Stuart Jones, and Roderick McKenzie: A Greek–English Lexicon (= LSJ). Oxford University Press, Oxford 91925. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  3. Article μῆκος in: LSJ. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  4. Article māk̑- in: Gerhard Köbler: Indogermanisches Wörterbuch. Online edition, 2014 (based in part on Julius Pokorny: Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. Francke, Bern 1959, 52005). Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  5. Macedonia” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019, retrieved 2008-10-31.

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