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Edeko

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By the name Edeko (with various spellings:Edicon, Ediko, Edica, Ethico) are considered three contemporaneous historical figures,[1] whom many scholars identified as one:

• A prominent Hun, who served as both Attila's deputy and his ambassador to the Byzantine Empire (in 449).[1][2]
• 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.[3]
• Idikon or Edico,[1] the father of Odoacer, who became a magister militum in the Roman Army and the first King of Italy (476–493).[1]

Etymology

Otto Maenchen-Helfen considered the Hunnic name Έδέκων (Edekon) to be of Germanic or Germanized origin, but did not mention any derivation.[1]

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).[2] The reconstructed form is *edäkün (< *edär-kün; "follower, retainer").[4]

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