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Headword: *ai( nh=ttai
Adler number: alphaiota,219
Translated headword: the ducks
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[ai( nh=ttai means the same as] ai( nh=ssai."[1]
But Ainitai [means] the people from Ainos.[2]
Greek Original:
*ai( nh=ttai: ai( nh=ssai. *ai)ni=tai de\ oi( a)po\ th=s *ai)/nou.
Notes:
[1] The headword noun is the Attic form of this nominative plural, the "gloss" its epic/Ionic equivalent; cf. nu 338. The phrase as a whole, with the definite article, is doubtless quoted from Aristophanes, Birds 1148.
[2] (Addendum lacking, Adler reports, in mss AF.) From alphaiota 225. In Byzantine and modern pronunciation, ai( nh=ttai and *Ai)ni=tai are homophonous.
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 17 January 2003@11:38:57.
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David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 19 January 2003@05:20:48.
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Catharine Roth (expanded note) on 29 July 2011@22:26:06.
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