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Achilles
Greek hero of the Trojan War stories, son of Thetis and Peleus, his name is perhaps a compound of
akhos
"pain, grief" (see
awe
) +
laos
"the people, a people" (see
lay
(adj.)); or else it is from a pre-Greek language.