Editing Cadmus (section)

==Etymology==
The etymology of Cadmus's name remains uncertain.<ref>[[LSJ]] s.v. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D*ka%2Fdmos Κάδμος].</ref> According to one view,{{Refn|Supported by [[Walter Burkert]] and [[Liddell–Scott]] among others|group=note}} the name originates from [[Phoenicia]]n, from the [[Semitic languages|Semitic]] root ''qdm'', which signifies "the east", the equation of ''Kadmos'' with the Semitic ''qdm'' was traced to a publication of 1646 by R. B. Edwards.<ref>Edwards, ''Kadmos the Phoenician: A Study in Greek Legends and the Mycenaean Age'' (Amsterdam 1979), noted by [[Walter Burkert]], ''The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Bronze Age'' (Harvard University Press) 1992:2, and note, who remarks that the complementary connection of ''Europa'' with ''rb'', "West" was an ancient one, made by [[Hesychius of Miletus|Hesychius]].</ref> According to another view,{{Refn|Supported by [[Vladimir I. Georgiev]], {{ill|Émile Boisacq|fr|Émile Boisacq}} and others|group="note"}} the name is of [[Greeks|Greek]] origin, ultimately from the word ''kekasmenos''. ({{Langx|el|κεκασμένος}}, {{Lit|excellent}}).<ref>{{harvnb|Ahl|1967|p=}}.{{page needed|date=January 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Allan R. Bomhard |title=Georgiev: Introduction to the History of the Indo-European Languages |url=http://archive.org/details/georgievintroductiontothehistoryoftheindoeuropeanlanguages1981 |edition=3rd |language=English}}</ref>

Possible connected words include the Semitic [[triliteral root]] ''qdm'' ({{langx|uga|[[wikt:𐎖𐎄𐎎|𐎖𐎄𐎎]]}})<ref>{{cite book|author1=Gregorio del Olmo Lete |author2=Joaquín Sanmartín|url=http://cnqzu.com/library/To%20Organize/Books/Brill%20Ebooks/Brill._Handbook_of_Oriental_Studies/Brill.%20Handbook%20of%20Oriental%20Studies/A_Dictionary_of_the_Ugaritic_Language_in_the_Alphabetic_Tradition__Handbook_of_Oriental_Studies_.pdf|title=A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition - Part One|publisher=Brill|year=2003|page=694|isbn=90-04-12891 3|access-date=12 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171230191225/http://cnqzu.com/library/To%20Organize/Books/Brill%20Ebooks/Brill._Handbook_of_Oriental_Studies/Brill.%20Handbook%20of%20Oriental%20Studies/A_Dictionary_of_the_Ugaritic_Language_in_the_Alphabetic_Tradition__Handbook_of_Oriental_Studies_.pdf|archive-date=30 December 2017|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> which signifies "east" in Ugaritic, in [[Arabic]], words derived from the root "qdm" include the verb "qdm" meaning "to come" as well as words meaning "primeval" and "forth" as well as "foot", names derived from it are "Qadim", which means "the elder one",{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}─in [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], ''qedem'' means "front", "east" and "ancient times"; the verb ''qadam'' ({{langx|syr|ܩܕܡ}}) means "to be in front",<ref>Compare: {{cite book| last1 = Graves| first1 = Robert| author-link1 = Robert Graves| chapter = 58: Europe and Cadmus |year=1990 |orig-year = 1955| title = The Greek Myths| volume  = 1| location = London| publisher = Penguin |isbn = 9781101554982| access-date = 2016-11-11| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=PuXnAe6STUYC| quote = [...] a small tribe, speaking a Semitic language, seems to have moved up from the Syrian plains to Cadmeia in Caria–Cadmus is a Semitic word meaning 'eastern' [...].}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Ruprecht | first1=Louis A. Jr. |title=God Gardened East: A Gardener's Meditation on the Dynamics of Genesis |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |date=2008 |page=31 |isbn=9781556354342}}</ref> and the Greek ''kekasmai'' (<*''kekadmai'') "to shine".{{Refn|group="note"|[[Robert Beekes]] rejects these derivations and considers it [[Pre-Greek]].<ref>[[Robert S. P. Beekes|R. S. P. Beekes]], ''Etymological Dictionary of Greek'', Brill, 2009, p. 614.</ref>}} Therefore, the complete meaning of the name might be: "He who excels" or "from the east".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sheknows.com/baby-names/name/cadmus |title=Cadmus |quote=The name Cadmus is a Greek baby name. In Greek the meaning of the name Cadmus is: He who excels; from the east. |department=Baby Names |publisher=SheKnows |access-date=14 January 2017}}</ref>