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Headword:
*me/laqra
Adler number: mu,445
Translated headword: roof
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] house.[1]
"[His] roof [...] I will reduce to ashes".[2]
[So called] from blackening [melai/nesqai] by smoke.[3]
Greek Original:*me/laqra: oi)=kon. *)aristofa/nhs: me/laqra me\n a)\n kataiqalw/sw. para\ to\ melai/nesqai u(po\ tou= kapnou=.
Notes:
[1] The headword, which must be quoted from somewhere (not necessarily the Aristophanic line given below), is a poetic neuter accusative plural; the gloss is masculine accusative singular. Likewise or similarly in other lexica: see the references at
Photius mu219 Theodoridis.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Birds 1247-8 (web address 1), here abridged and (by
au)tou= becoming
a)/n) corrupted; cf.
kappa 893, and under
pi 1029.
[3] Same etymology in
Etymologicum Magnum 576.16.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: architecture; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; poetry; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 May 2008@05:17:43.
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