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[417] πρύμνῃ appears here with its original force of an adjective, though we find it already as a substantive in Il.16. 124.That “πρυμνός” is connected with “πρέμνον” is easy to see, but whether it may ultimately be referred to “πρό” with the Aeolic change to “υ”, and thus signify a ‘prominent,’ though not necessarily ‘forward’ part of the ship, is open to more doubt. Perhaps the apparently contradictory meanings attaching to supremus, “ὕπατος, νειότατος”, etc., may suggest a way of connecting “πρυμνός” with “πρό”.

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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