Comedy and KWMH
Steven Craig Miller
scmiller at www.plantnet.com
Wed Jan 26 15:06:54 EST 2000
To: the participants of the B-Greek list,
"The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology" (edited by C. T. Onions),
under the entry "comedy," states the following:
<< Gr. komoidia, f. komoidos, comic actor, comic poet, f. komos [KWMOS]
revel, merrymaking, wrongly derived by Dorian writers from kome [KWMH]
village. >>
What is meant here by "wrongly derived"? Is "inappropriately derived"
meant? Or something else?
-Steven Craig Miller
Alton, Illinois (USA)
scmiller at www.plantnet.com
FWIW: I'm neither a clergy-person, nor an academic (and I have no post-grad
degrees).
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