The Greek word for "human being ", ἄνθρωπος , has been associated for a long time with the root-name ἀνήρ, ἀνδρός " man ", but this widely accepted etymological linking may not be that self-evident, as will assume the present paper. Greek ἄνθρωπος is obviously an old compound, and Mycenian Greek a-to-ro-qo/*ἀνθρώkʷῳ/ (dative) reflects indeed the expected labiovelar. Whereat one may reply that there is no clear phonological nor semantical reason why an unattested †ἄνδρωkʷος (which we may expect to have meant something like " having a manly face") would have been replaced by this enigmatic *ἄνθρωkʷος. Whatsoever might be the final explanation of it, one would better drop this idea, for this Common-Greek etymon *ἄνθρωkʷος is likely to reflect an inherited PIE compound *ṇdʰ-r-e-h3kʷ-ó-(" directed downward ", whence " earthling, earthman, earthwoman "). One may eventualy assume that an inherited adjective *ἀθρωkʷóς indicating a position into space (" directed downward, being upon earth ") would have been used as a substantive (" human being ") with recessive accent, the -n-being analogical with the familly of ἀνήρ, ἀνδρός.