[Meaning] to comb.
*pei/kein: kteni/zein.
Adler reports an identical entry in the
Ambrosian Lexicon (563); cf.
Etymologicum Gudianum and a scholion on Hesiod,
Works and Days 775, where the phrase
o)/is pei/kein "to shear sheep" occurs (web address 1). Apollonius the Sophist, ps.-Herodian, and
Hesychius gloss the infinitive with
cai/nein "to card." The verb is usually
pe/kw (
pi 918), but (besides the infinitive in Hesiod),
pei/kete is attested in
Homer (
Odyssey 18.316).
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