Doricdā, 原始希臘語*dē, "earth" + mētēr, "mother". The dā element is not so simply equated with "earth" according to John Chadwick（英语：John Chadwick） (Chadwick, The Mycenaean World [Cambridge University Press] 1976, p 87): "Every Greek was aware of the maternal functions of Demeter; if her name bore the slightest resemblance to the Greek word for 'mother', it would inevitably have been deformed to emphasize that resemblance. [...] How did it escape transformation into *Gāmātēr, a name transparent to any Greek speaker?" Compare the Latin transformation 木星 and Diespiter vis-a-vis *Deus pāter.
