[Meaning a] tool for metal-working.
Homer [says]: "and the bellows, twenty in all, blew upon the melting-vats."[1] And the accusative [is]
fu/shn.[2]
*fu=sa: xalkeutiko\n e)rgalei=on. *(/omhros: fu=sai d' e)n xoa/noisin e)ei/kosi pa=sai e)fu/swn. kai\ h( ai)tiatikh\ th\n fu/shn.
The Greek term for bellows, just as in English, is normally in the plural (as in the Homeric quotation here); but even in the singular, as in the present headword, it means 'pair of bellows' (LSJ s.v.).
[1]
Homer,
Iliad 18.470 (web address 1) on Hephaestus' forge.
[2] More commonly the accusative singular is
fu=san, and in the singular the word does not normally refer to bellows but to 'breath', 'bladder', etc. See also
phi 859.
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