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Macedonia region - Etymology of the name of Macedonia | | Macedonia region - Etymology of the name of Macedonia: Encyclopedia II - Macedonia region - Etymology of the name of Macedonia | | | According to ancient Greek mythology, Macedon - ancient Greek Μακεδών Makedōn, poetic Μακηδών Makēdōn - was the name of the first phylarch (tribal chief) of the Μακεδόνες Makedónes, the part of the Μακεδνοί MakednoíSee also: Macedonia region, Macedonia region - Etymology of the name of Macedonia, Macedonia region - Boundaries and definitions, Macedonia region - Demographics, Macedonia region - History, Macedonia region - Ancient Macedonia 500 BC to 146 BC, Macedonia region - Medieval Macedonia, Macedonia region - Macedonia's Division, Macedonia region - Macedonia after World War II, Macedonia region - Independence of the Republic of Macedonia, Macedonia region - Controversy: Republic of Macedonia and Greece, Macedonia region - Controversy: Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria | | | Macedonia region, Macedonia region - Ancient Macedonia 500 BC to 146 BC, Macedonia region - Boundaries and definitions, Macedonia region - Controversy: Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria, Macedonia region - Controversy: Republic of Macedonia and Greece, Macedonia region - Demographics, Macedonia region - Etymology of the name of Macedonia, Macedonia region - History, Macedonia region - Independence of the Republic of Macedonia, Macedonia region - Macedonia after World War II, Macedonia region - Macedonia's Division, Macedonia region - Medieval Macedonia, Irredentism, Demographic history of Macedonia, Macedonia (Greece), Pirin Macedonia, Republic of Macedonia, History of Europe, History of the Balkans, History of Greece, History of Bulgaria, History of the Republic of Macedonia, History of Serbia | | |
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Macedonia region - Etymology of the name of Macedonia
According to ancient Greek mythology, Macedon - ancient Greek Μακεδών Makedōn, poetic Μακηδών Makēdōn - was the name of the first phylarch (tribal chief) of the Μακεδόνες Makedónes, the part of the Μακεδνοί Makednoí tribe which initially settled western, southern and central Macedonia and founded the kingdom of Macedon. Αccording to Herodotus (Histories 8.47), the Makednoí were in turn a tribe of the Dorians. All these names are probably derived from the Doric adjective μακεδνός makednós (Attic μηκεδανός mēkedanós), meaning "tall". This in turn is derived from the Doric noun μᾶκος mākos (Attic and modern Greek μάκρος mákros and μῆκος mēkos), meaning "length". Both the Macedonians (Makedónes) and their Makednoí tribal ancestors were regarded as tall people, and they are likely to have received their name on account of their height. See also List of traditional Greek place names.
Homer uses the genitive μακεδνῆς, makednēs, to describe a tall poplar tree:
αἱ δ' ἱστοὺς ὑφόωσι καὶ ἠλάκατα στρωφῶσιν
ἥμεναι, οἷά τε φύλλα μακεδνῆς αἰγείροιο
"and others weave webs, or, as they sit, twirl the yarn,
like unto the leaves of a tall poplar tree"
(of the female slaves of the Phaeacians, Od. 7.105f.)
It has been suggested that the name Makedónes may mean "highlanders", from a hypothetical (i.e. unattested) Macedonian bahuvrihi *μακι-κεδόνες *maki-kedónes "of the high earth", with the first constituent μακι- maki-, allegedly meaning "high", and an unattested second part -κεδών -kedōn, being cognate to Attic χθών khthōn, "earth". However the word μᾶκος/μῆκος has only been used to describe tall physical stature in humans, and only in two instances has it been used to mean "height" of inanimate objects: the aforementioned Homeric tall poplar tree and the imaginary wall built around the city of the Birds (in the comedy by the same name by Aristophanes). Furthermore, if the word Makikedōn actually ever existed, it should be paroxytone (Μακικέδων, as in αυτόχθων, etc), not oxytone.
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