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Headword: *dusbra/kanos
Adler number: delta,1602
Translated headword: hard to deal with
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] hard to understand.[1]: for brakana are wild vegetables hard to wash clean.[2]
Greek Original:
*dusbra/kanos: duskatano/htos: bra/kana ga\r a)/gria la/xana du/spluta.
Notes:
Different readings are attested for the headword in Photius (dusba/rkanos, obelized by Theodoridis) and the Etymologicum Magnum (dusba/rnakos), probably by corruption in the manuscript transmission.
Nonetheless it seems that the gloss stems from Photius, Lexicon delta799. (The Suda compiler either had an uncorrupted manuscript or was able to identify the error.) Hesychius delta2539 has a similar (not identical) gloss; and see further, next note.
[1] In Hesychius this synonym is recorded in the final part of the gloss and related to the comic poet Cratinus (fr. 404 Kock, now 442 K.-A.).
[2] Neuter plural; cf. beta 517, Hesychius beta1041, and Photius beta260.
Keywords: botany; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food
Translated by: Stefano Sanfilippo on 3 April 2005@12:30:30.
Vetted by:
Antonella Ippolito (cosmetics) on 3 April 2005@21:00:25.
David Whitehead (modified translation; corrected x-ref; more keywords; cosmetics) on 4 April 2005@03:52:18.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 19 July 2012@07:10:32.
David Whitehead on 23 December 2014@05:11:10.
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