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Headword:
*mixqh=nai
h)\
migh=nai
Adler number: mu,1143
Translated headword: to have had intercourse
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to have encountered, to have commingled, to have associated.
Greek Original:*mixqh=nai h)\ migh=nai: a)panth=sai, summi/cai, o(milh=sai.
Note:
The headword verb is here illustrated by two versions of the aorist passive infinitive,
mixqh=nai and
migh=nai. Both are used (e.g.) by Oedipus in
Sophocles,
Oedipus Tyrannus, of his incestuous relationship with his mother Jocasta: see lines 791 and 995. Yet the verb itself was just as ambiguous in Greek as it is in English; for instances where
sexual 'intercourse' is meant see e.g.
delta 683,
zeta 4.
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; gender and sexuality; mythology; tragedy; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 29 June 2009@08:38:21.
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