Olympe mount

See also: Olympe (homonymy)

The mount Olympe (of the old Greek Ὄλυμπος / Olympos ) is more the high mountain of Greece, with a top with 2917  meters and belonging to the chain of the same name. Olympe is the field of the gods of the Greek Mythologie.

Etymology

This one is not assured. However, it would seem that it exclusively calls upon elements of Indo-European origin . Thus the Greek terms: ollumi (“to cross”, “to shave”, “to destroy”), oloos (“destroying”, “mortal”) or oulē (“cut”, “notch”) makes it possible to pose a meaning topic olu- : “to cross”, “to cut”, “to mow”, “to shave”. As for the final - mpos , this suffix is attested in several Indo-European languages in Adjectif S indicating a situation, a position or an orientation.

It thus arises that Olumpos could mean initially: “located in sharp position” or “cutting the passage”. It is known that Olympe was insuperable almost everywhere and this mountain was regarded a long time by the Old ones as being a border separating the Thessalie from the Macedonia or, if one prefers, the Greece more septentrional continent of Europe.

The other etymology, more probable, would be qu'" Oulumpos" (as one finds it at Homère) from the Indo-European comes and is consisted of the *wel- roots (" to turn, enrouler" - at the origin, for example, of German Wolke: " nuage" , of French waltz…) and *ombh- (" thing ronde" , " sommet" - to see for example Latin " umbo" indicating the convex part of a shield). The direction of Olympos was thus that of " mountain whose clouds are rolled up around the sommet" and it is about a word going back to the " Proto-IE" which was in the beginning " *Wol-*omb" and was deformed in Olumpos by the Greek when they adopted this mot.

Geography

The Olympe mount extends to north from Greece close to the coast Égéenne, with the limit of the Thessalie and the Macedonia. Olympe is a mountain of massive appearance, rising abruptly with several places and broadside of broad ravines. Densément timbered in its lower part, her vast top rock is covered with snow the major part of the year.

The first known rise was made in 1913 by D.  Baud-Bovy, F.  Boissonas and K.  Kakalos.

See too

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External bonds

  • ''Peakware World Mountain Encyclopedia''.

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