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Headword:
*gru=
Adler number: gamma,461
Translated headword: grunt, ugh
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning something] short. But some [say it is] the crud from [under] the nails.[1]
Aristophanes in
Wealth [writes]: "and responding to these things without even so much as an ugh."[2] Some [say the word comes] from 'grunting', that is the sound of pigs; or [that it is] a kind of small coin; or any old thing, the smallest thing. Whence come
gru/th ['purse for odds and ends'] and
gruto/pwlis ['odds-and-ends-saleswoman'] -- which is not spoken [properly this way], but
grupo/pwlis.[3]
Also [sc. attested is] a proverb: "
Dion's grunt", in reference to something small and inconsequential.[4]
*gru=: braxu/. e)/nioi de\ to\n a)po\ tw=n o)nu/xwn r(u/pon. *)aristofa/nhs *plou/tw|: kai\ tau=t' a)pokrinome/nou topara/pan ou)de\ gru=. tine\s para\ to\n grulismo\n, toute/sti th\n fwnh\n tw=n xoi/rwn: h)\ ei)=dos mikrou= nomi/smatos: h)\ to\ tuxo\n, to\ mikro/taton. o(/qen kai\ gru/th kai\ gruto/pwlis: o(/per ou)k ei)/rhtai, a)lla\ grupo/pwlis. kai\ paroimi/a: *to\ *di/wnos gru=, e)pi\ tou= mikrou= kai\ tuxo/ntos.
Notes:
[1] Up to this point the source is the
Synagoge of grammatical information used as a common source by
Photius and the Suda. Cf. also the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Wealth [
Plutus] 17 (web address 1), about to be quoted, and to
Knights 877 (where a personage with the name 'Gruttos' is referred to: web address 2);
Hesychius gamma938;
Anecdota Graeca I (Bekker) 228.2; Theognostos in
Anecdota Oxoniensia 2.19.20.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Wealth [
Plutus] 17 (web address 1), followed by comment from the
scholia there. Cf.
omicron 779.
[3] Perhaps a true assertion about the
literature known to this scholar, but
gruto/pwlis does occur on e.g. a papyrus of the C2 CE (Youtie 96.2).
[4] See
Appendix Proverbiorum 4.91,
Apostolius 17.3 (cf. 5.64), and fully at
tau 730.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
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Translated by: William Hutton on 11 July 2003@04:59:14.
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