Διανεῖς

Abstract

The ethnic name Διανεῖς is preserved only by Stephen of Byzantium, who considers the tribe to be Galatian. Although it is not necessary at all that the ethnic name must be linguistically Celtic, it should be nevertheless admitted that a Celtic etymology is applicable to it. The paper considers various approaches to explain this name attested in Greek morphological guise, but all conclusions are doomed to be tentative by default.