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Headword:
*prohgorew=nas
Adler number: pi,2412
Translated headword: crops
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the throats of birds, properly speaking the so-called prologoi, because grains are collected [sulle/getai] in them. In humans, too, the throat is also called a crop. In either case [the term comes] from nourishment accumulating there. Or windpipes of birds.
Greek Original:*prohgorew=nas: tou\s bro/gxous tw=n o)rne/wn, kuri/ws tou\s legome/nous prolo/gous, o(/ti sulle/getai e)n au)toi=s ta\ siti/a. le/getai de\ kai\ e)pi\ a)nqrw/pwn prohgorew\n pa/lin o( bro/gxos. e(ka/teron de\ a)po\ tou= a)qroi/zein e)kei= th\n trofh/n. h)\ fa/ruggas o)rne/wn.
Notes:
From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Birds 1113, where this accusative plural occurs (in the form
prhgorew=nas): see web address 1.
See also
pi 2413 (and already
pi 2260).
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; medicine; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 14 March 2010@09:37:05.
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