| Eponym Person | From Naxus, leader of the Carians. |
| Eponym Person | Others (say) from Naxus, (son) of Endymion. |
| Morphological Composition | Euphorion (says) from the verb 'νάξαι', which some render 'βῦσαί'. |
| Folk Etymology Narrative | Asclepiades reports that the women of the Naxiots give birth only after eight months — either because Hera, having become a friend of Dionysus, granted this gift to the Naxiads, or because Dionysus himself was born thus. |
| Folk Etymology Narrative | And that there is there a spring from which wine flows very sweet (offered as an explanation). |
| Place Transfer | The ethnicon 'Naxioi', from which also the 'Naxia' stone (the Cretan whetstone) is named. |
| Morphological Composition | It is also said that the feminine 'Naxias' comes from 'Naxios'. |
| Morphological Composition | And the Cretan whetstone, if written with an iota, means 'the distinguishing and revealing'. |