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Headword:
*kefalh/n
Adler number: kappa,1448
Translated headword: Kephallenian, Cephallenian
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [KephalĂȘn] is declined KephalĂȘnos [in the genitive].[1] Also [sc. attested is] Kephalenia, a territory.[2]
Greek Original:*kefalh/n, *kefalh=nos kli/netai. kai\ *kefalhni/a, xw/ra.
Notes:
[1] The Suda uses the late spelling with one lambda; cf. the TLG editions of
Scylax 34;
Aristotle,
History of Animals 605b;
Diodorus Siculus 15.36.5; Appian,
Civil Wars 5.3.25,
Iamblichus,
de Vita Pythagorica 2.3.
[2] More exactly, a large island off the west coast of Balkan Greece (between
Leukas, Ithaca and
Zakynthos); Barrington Atlas map 54 grid B5 (as 'Cephallania'). For the -ll- version of the toponym see e.g. under
alphaiota 48.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 11 November 2008@03:38:09.
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