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Headword:
*)ecagkwniw=
Adler number: epsilon,1517
Translated headword: I will elbow
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] I will put my elbows under my sides: for thus I will never be caught by the middle or reveal [myself], so that [if someone] drags me by the hands and lifts me by the middle he may not know that I am a woman by my tits.
Greek Original:*)ecagkwniw=: tou\s a)gkw=nas u(po\ tai=s pleurai=s poih/sw: ou)de/pote ga\r ou(/tw me/sh lhfqh/somai h)\ paradw/sw, i(/na tw=n xeirw=n e(/lkh| me kai\ mh\ me/shn a)ra/menos gnw=|, o(/ti gunh/ ei)mi e)k tw=n titqi/wn.
Notes:
From a scholion on
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae 259 (web address 1), where the headword -- future indicative of
e)cagkwni/zw, first person singular -- occurs.
On "elbows" in various senses, see
alpha 249.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; medicine; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 29 May 2007@19:38:47.
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