Hi, All:

This morning I ran across the word "daedal" in a poem by Sharon Olds:

I try to see
this house without her, without her pure
depth of feeling, without her creek-brown
hair, her daedal hands with their tapered
fingers, her pupils dark as the mourning cloak's
wing, but I can't...

http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/olds.html

I'm curious--does 'daedal' claim its roots from the mythical Daedalus? M-W offers only that the etymology is from the Latin daedalus and the Greek daidalos. I guess, then, this is a chicken/egg question: did the craftsman Daedalus get his name from the existing Greek/Latin roots, or was it the other way around? How does one go about checking the chronology of word derivation, barring the purchase of an OED?

Thanks in advance.