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Headword:
*kuna/muia
Adler number: kappa,2693
Translated headword: dog-fly
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning she who is] most/very shameless. [
Homer] has coined the word from 'dog' [
kun-] and 'fly' [
mui/a]. For the dog [is] shameless and the fly bold.
*kuna/muia: a)naidesta/th. paresxhma/tike to\ o)/noma a)po\ tou= kuno\s kai\ th=s mui/as. o( me\n ga\r ku/wn a)naidh/s, h( de\ mui=a qrasei=a.
Note:
Homer uses the word as a term of abuse at
Iliad 21.394 (Web address 1) and 21.421 (Web address 2) in reference to Athena and Aphrodite respectively. Cf. Aristonicus,
De signis Iliadis on 21.394; Apollonius,
Homeric Lexicon 105.12;
scholia ad locc. More remotely:
Hesychius kappa4561 and kappa4602,
Etymologicum Magnum 545.47. The word is also spelled
kuno/muia in later sources:
kappa 2716 (=
Hesychius kappa4602).
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics; gender and sexuality; imagery; mythology; poetry; religion; zoology
Translated by: William Hutton on 12 March 2008@09:00:40.
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