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But they do grow in flower beds!

by Andy ;—) (guest)

6/27/2006, 1:51 AM

True enough! But I just found this in my Greek dictionary:

"ionia" (with an omega) for "flower bed of violets". So I don't think the omikron/omega thing is really all that crucial. But haven't been able to find out anything about the origin of the name Ion. I thought maybe your clever books might know …

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- Pavlos +1

6/29/2006, 2:12 AM

I am really pretty stumped with the origin of Ion and the Ionians (I dont care too much about those bloody Corinthians and Ionians, being Doric myself). Here is a site which presents quite a few (nonconclusive) theories:

http://www.indo-european.nl/cgi-bin/response.cgi?root=leiden&morpho=0&basename=dataiegreek&first=71

- Andy ;—) (guest)

6/30/2006, 3:52 AM

The link doesn't seem to work …

… so maybe you can give me a short survey on the information?

tia

Andy

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