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Headword: *xroia/
Adler number: chi,552
Translated headword: skin
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The Attic-speakers [say] xroi/a with paroxytone accent [sc. acute accent on the next-to-last syllable]. "How pleased I am seeing the skin!" But the common dialect [koine] [pronounces the word] with oxytone accent [sc. acute accent on the last syllable].[1]
But xro/a [is pronounced] with barytone accent [sc. accent on the next-to-last syllable], like yo/a.[2]
Greek Original:
*xroia/: xroi/a de\ parocuto/nws oi( *)attikoi/. w(s h(/domai prw=ta th\n xroi/an i)dw/n. h( de\ koinh\ o)cuto/nws. *xro/a de\ baruto/nws, w(s yo/a.
Notes:
[1] Aristophanes, Clouds 1171, with scholion.
[2] cf. chi 528.
Keywords: comedy; dialects, grammar, and etymology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 5 June 2007@19:51:35.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 6 June 2007@03:17:09.
David Whitehead on 14 November 2013@03:40:29.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 16 January 2016@23:56:46.
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