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Headword:
*xqamala/
Adler number: chi,322
Translated headword: humble [things]; flat [things]
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] lowly [ones], level [ones], even [ones].[1]
"[He] testing at what part of the river it was at the same time solid and flat."[2]
Also [sc. attested is] xqamalw/taton ["humblest"], [meaning] lowliest.[3]
Greek Original:*xqamala/: tapeina/, o(mala/, i)=sa. dokima/zwn, h(=| a(/ma me\n stereo/n, a(/ma de\ xqamalo\n h)=n tou= potamou=. kai\ *xqamalw/taton, tapeino/taton.
Notes:
The headword adjective is related to obsolete *
xama/ ("earth") and so its meaning can be literal or metaphorical; cf. Latin
humilis from
humus ("earth").
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica, and cf. the
scholia to
Homer,
Odyssey 10.196, where feminine singular
xqamalh/ occurs. The present
xqamala/ must be quoted from somewhere else; there are numerous possibilities.
[2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable; see also
eta 6.
[3] The superlative form of the adjective; probably quoted from
Homer,
Iliad 13.683.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 30 March 2008@00:48:46.
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