what is the origin of the former name?
A probable suggestion is that it is derived from a hypothetical PIE root 'orphan, servant, slave' and ultimately the verb root 'to change allegiance, status, ownership.' Cognates could include (; 'darkness') and (; 'fatherless, orphan') from which comes English 'orphan' by way of Latin.
Orpheus
 A probable suggestion is that it is derived from a hypothetical PIE root 'orphan, servant, slave' and ultimately the verb root 'to change allegiance, status, ownership.' Cognates could include (; 'darkness') and (; 'fatherless, orphan') from which comes English 'orphan' by way of Latin.
what are duino elegies? A collection of ten elegies written by the Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) where was the poet born? He was born René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke in Prague, capital of Bohemia what happened  to her in paris? Rilke left home and travelled to Paris to write a monograph on the sculptor Auguste Rodin. what are a few of his famous works? "Duino Elegies", "Sonnets to Orpheus", "The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge", what is the symbolism used in the second work? The work is based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.
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Orpheus [SEP] Etymology
Several etymologies for the name "Orpheus" have been proposed. A probable suggestion is that it is derived from a hypothetical PIE root 'orphan, servant, slave' and ultimately the verb root 'to change allegiance, status, ownership.' Cognates could include (; 'darkness') and (; 'fatherless, orphan') from which comes English 'orphan' by way of Latin. Fulgentius, a mythographer of the late 5th to early 6th century AD, gave the unlikely etymology meaning "best voice," "Oraia-phonos".