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Headword:
*kefalh/
Adler number: kappa,1446
Translated headword: head, extremity
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. So named] from having curvature of the spine [
kekufw=sqai], or rather [from] being bent over [
keka/mfqai]. And physicians call it
skafei=on ["bowl"]. And
Hippocrates [calls it]
ku/bhtos.[1] But the Macedonians [call it]
ke/bh, using
beta instead of
phi, as in Pherenike, [whom they call] Berenike.[2]
*kefalh/: para\ to\ kekufw=sqai, h)/goun keka/mfqai. kai\ oi( i)atroi\ skafei=on au)to\ kalou=si. kai\ o( *(ippokra/ths de\ ku/bhton. *makedo/nes de\ ke/bhn, to\ b a)nti\ tou= f lamba/nontes, w(s e)pi\ *fereni/khs, *bereni/khs.
Notes:
Same entry, according to Adler, in
Anecdota Oxoniensia ed. Cramer 2.256.27.
[1] cf.
kappa 2596; see also
Etymologicum Magnum 543.6.
[2] For Berenike see under
phi 828. One of the few facts known about the ancient Macedonian language is that Proto-Indoeuropean voiced aspirates appear as voiced stops (written with beta, delta, and gamma), in contrast to all known Greek dialects, which have voiceless aspirates (phi, theta, chi). The Macedonian word for "head" appears as
keblh/ in
Callimachus fr. 657 Pfeiffer; see also
keblh/puris "red-capped bird" in
Aristophanes,
Birds 303.
Hesychius kappa1959 has
kebalh/ glossed with
kefalh/. ku/lic. For more information, see the Wikipedia entry at web address 1.
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Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; medicine; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 11 November 2008@20:34:50.
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