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Headword: *kairwstri/des
Adler number: kappa,1195
Translated headword: loom-women
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] women weavers. [sc. So called] because kai/rwsis ["fastening the thrums"] [is] winding the thread.
Greek Original:
*kairwstri/des: ai( u(fa/ntriai. kai/rwsis ga\r h( plokh\ tou= mi/tou.
Notes:
Nominative plural of this noun, variously given as kairwstri/des (as here) and kairwsti/des. Apparently quoted from Callimachus (fr.640): see Eustathius, Commentary on the Odyssey 1571.57; Hesychius kappa273; and a scholion on Homer, Odyssey 7.107 (ed. Dindorf).
See also kappa 1193, kappa 1194.
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; poetry; trade and manufacture; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 7 March 2009@22:42:01.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords; cosmetics) on 8 March 2009@05:22:14.
David Whitehead on 12 February 2013@07:26:57.
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