DEMIURGOS

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Sep 10 12:55:04 EDT 1999


At 12:32 PM -0400 9/10/99, Mary Pendergraft wrote:
>The _e_ of this transliteration represents eta.  Your intuition was right:
>the >word is there!

>> At the bottom of the page is the note:
>>
>> (20) Greek demiurgo/s

Mary is absolutely right here; the only thing I'd add is that a Greek word
has been Latinized here: the e of demi- is an H, but also the u of -urgos
is the Greek diphthong OU, so that you have DHMIOURGOS; moreover the OU is
a contraction from an earlier O-E in the Homeric form of this noun,
DHMIO-ERGOS.


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