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Headword:
*nh=stis
Adler number: nu,346
Translated headword: faster; intestinum jejunum; fasting, hunger
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] one who lacks food; also the intestine between the belly and the stomach.[1]
[sc. The word derives] from the privative particle nh and the [verb] e)/dein ["to eat"], he who is deprived of eating; or from the privative nh and the [noun] si=tos ["food"].[2]
"And Hunger, she who moistens the human race with bitter tears". [He is] speaking of water.[3]
Greek Original:*nh=stis: o( a)/sitos, kai\ to\ metacu\ th=s koili/as kai\ tou= stoma/xou e)/nteron. para\ to\ nh sterhtiko\n mo/rion kai\ to\ e)/dein, o( e)sterhme/nos tou= e)/dein, h)\ para\ to\ nh sterhtiko\n kai\ to\ si=tos. *nh=sti/s q', h(\ dakru/ois ge pikroi=s nwma=| bro/teion ge/nos. to\ u(/dwr le/gwn.
Notes:
The headword can serve as both adjective and substantive: see LSJ.
cf.
nu 345.
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at
Photius nu202 Theodoridis.
[2] Similar etymologies in
Etymologicum Magnum, from Orion [
Author,
Myth] (via Herodian).
[3] A loose (and unmetrical) approximation of the second line of
Empedocles fr. 6 Diels. For the authentic version see
Diogenes Laertius 8.76 (who adds this gloss).
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 26 September 2009@00:50:17.
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