Note 710 — Chapter VI · THE MAKING OF A GODDESS.

All the proposed etymologies, possible and impossible, are collected by Mannhardt, Mythologische Forschungen, p. 287. To his discussion must now be added Dr Kretschmer’s view that Δᾶ like Μᾶ means mother and that the form Δαμάτηρ arose when Δᾶ had crystallized into a proper name. See Festschrift der Wiener-Studien, 1902, p. 291.