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Headword: *)eggu/h
Adler number: epsilon,163
Translated headword: surety
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] a secure and reliable claim. [The term comes] from gh= ["earth"], [come] gu/h [a measure of land][1] and e)ggu/h.[2] For the earth [is] more solid than the other elements.
Greek Original:
*)eggu/h: h( a)sfalh\s a)ntipoi/hsis kai\ staqhra/. a)po\ tou= gh=, gu/h, kai\ e)ggu/h. kai\ ga\r h( gh= tw=n a)/llwn stoixei/wn pagiwte/ra.
Notes:
Same headword at epsilon 164; related words at epsilon 165, epsilon 168, epsilon 169, epsilon 170.
[1] Hesychius (gamma979) also gives the feminine gu/h: me/tron ple/qrou; more usual is the masculine gu/hs (see gamma 474 for another sense of it), which however rarely -- in this sense -- occurs in the singular (LSJ s.v.).
[2] Also in the form e)ggu/a.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; geography; law; science and technology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 2 June 2005@19:31:22.
Vetted by:
Antonella Ippolito (set status) on 2 June 2005@20:40:19.
David Whitehead (x-ref; cosmetics) on 3 June 2005@02:35:47.
David Whitehead (expanded my x-ref) on 3 June 2005@10:05:10.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 27 July 2012@04:09:09.
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