Edeko

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Role Odoacer's father Died 469 AD Name Edeko Edeko		Children Odoacer
Similar People Odoacer, Romulus Augustulus, Samuel Sharpe, Gabriel Prosser

By the name Edeko are considered three contemporaneous historical figures, whom some scholars identified as one:

A powerful Hunnic lieutenant and ambassador of Attila to the court in Constantinople in 449.

A chieftain of the Scirii, who was defeated at the Battle of Bolia by the Ostrogoths at the river Bolia in Pannonia sometime in the late 460s.

Idikon or Edico, the father of Odoacer, who became a magister militum in the Roman Army and the first King of Italy (476–493).

Etymology

The Hunnic name Έδέκων (Edekon) Otto Maenchen-Helfen considered to be of Germanic or Germanized origin, but did not mention any derivation.

Omeljan Pritsak derived it from Old Turkic verbal root *edär- (to pursue, to follow), and deverbal noun suffix κων (kun < r-k < r-g < *gun). The reconstructed form is *edäkün (< *edär-kün; "follower, retainer").

References

Edeko Wikipedia

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