Editing Eos (section)

== Etymology ==
The [[Proto-Greek language|Proto-Greek]] form of ''Ἠώς'' / ''Ēṓs'' has been reconstructed as ''*ἀυhώς / auhṓs''.<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":mlw">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZXrJA_5LKlYC|title=Indo-European Poetry and Myth|last=West|first=Martin L.|date=2007-05-24|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=9780199280759|language=en}}</ref> It is [[cognate]] to the [[Vedic]] goddess ''[[Ushas]]'', [[Culture of Lithuania|Lithuania]]n goddess ''[[Aušrinė]]'', and [[ancient Roman religion|Roman]] goddess ''[[Aurora (mythology)|Aurora]]'' ([[Old Latin]] ''Ausosa''), all three of whom are also goddesses of the dawn.<ref name=":4" /> Meissner (2006) suggested an ''áwwɔ̄s'' > /aṷwɔ̄s/ > {{lang|grc|αὔως}} lengthening for Aeolic and */aṷwɔ̄s/ > ''*āwɔ̄s'' > ''*ǣwɔ̄s'' > /ǣɔ̄s/ for Attic-Ionic Greek.{{sfn|Miller|2014|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=5vPnBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA219 219–220]}}

=== In Greek dialects ===
In [[Mycenaean Greek]] her name is also attested in the form {{lang|gmy|{{script|Linb|𐀀𐀺𐀂𐀍}}}} in [[Linear B]], ''a-wo-i-jo'' (''Āw(ʰ)oʰios''; Ἀϝohιος),{{efn|Foreign scholars interpret this name as "matinal", "matutino", "mañanero", meaning "of the early morning", "of the dawn".<ref>Bernabé, Alberto; Luján, Eugenio R. ''Introducción al Griego Micénico: Gramática, selección de textos y glosario''. Monografías de Filología Grega Vol. 30. Zaragoza: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza. 2020. p. 234.</ref>}}<ref>Luján, Eugénio R. "Los temas en -s en micénico". In: ''Donum Mycenologicum: Mycenaean Studies in Honour of Francisco Aura Jorro''. Edited by Alberto Bernabé and Eugenio R. Luján. Bibliothèque des cahiers de L'Institut de Linguistique de Louvain Vol. 131. Louvain-la-Neuve; Walpole, MA: Peeters. 2014. p. 68.</ref> found in a tablet from [[Pylos]];{{efn|Also found on the [https://liber.cnr.it/tablet/view/3609 KN Dv 1462] tablet from [[Heraklion]].}} it has been interpreted as a shepherd's personal name related to "dawn",<ref>Lejeune, Michel. "Une présentation du Mycénien". In: ''Revue des Études Anciennes''. Tome 69, 1967, n° 3&ndash;4. p. 281. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.3406/rea.1967.3800]; www.persee.fr/doc/rea_0035-2004_1967_num_69_3_3800</ref><ref>Nakassis, Dimitri. "Labor and Individuals in Late Bronze Age Pylos". In: ''Labor in the Ancient World''. Edited by Piotr Steinkeller and Michael Hudson. Dresden: ISLET-Verlag. 2015 [2005]. p. 605. {{ISBN|978-3-9814842-3-6}}.</ref><ref>[[Anna Morpurgo Davies|Davies, Anna Morpurgo]] (1972). "Greek and Indo-European semiconsonants: Mycenaean u and w". In: ''Acta Mycenaea'', vol. 2 (M.S. Ruipérez, ed.). Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca. p. 93.</ref><ref>Jorro, Francisco Aura. "Reflexiones sobre el léxico micénico" In:  ''Conuentus Classicorum: temas y formas del Mundo Clásico''. Coord. por Jesús de la Villa, Emma Falque Rey, José Francisco González Castro, María José Muñoz Jiménez, Vol. 1, 2017, pp. 307. {{ISBN|978-84-697-8214-9}}.</ref> or [[dative case|dative]] form ''Āwōiōi''.<ref>Chadwick, John, and [[Lydia Baumbach]]. "The Mycenaean Greek Vocabulary". In: ''Glotta'' 41, no. 3/4 (1963): 198. Accessed March 12, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40265918.</ref>

=== Former proposals ===
Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll offered a different (now rejected) etymology for ''{{lang|grc|ἠὼς}}'', linking it to the verb {{lang|grc|αὔω}}, meaning "to blow", "to breathe."<ref name=":stoll">Stoll, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=UWoBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA62 62]</ref>

[[Lycophron]] calls her by an archaic name, ''Tito'', meaning "day" and perhaps etymologically linked to "Titan".<ref>See [https://lsj.gr/wiki/τιτώ "τιτώ"] on [[A Greek-English Lexicon]].</ref> [[Károly Kerényi|Karl Kerenyi]] observes that Tito shares a linguistic origin with Eos's lover [[Tithonus]], which belonged to an older, [[Pre-Greek substrate|pre-Greek]] language.{{sfn|Kerenyi|1951|page=[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.7346/page/n225/mode/2up?view=theater 199, note 637]}}