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Headword:
*pai=sai
Adler number: pi,893
Translated headword: to play, to dance; to strike
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to play like a child.[1] To beat.[2]
Greek Original:*pai=sai: pai=cai. tu/yai.
Notes:
Both glosses have parallels in other lexica; references at
Photius pi39 Theodoridis.
cf.
pi 873,
pi 880,
pi 892,
pi 894.
[1] The earlier aorist stem of
pai/zw "play, dance" was
paisa- from
paid-sa-. Cf. scholion on
Aristophanes,
Frogs 388, where the headword occurs (web address 1).
[2] In later Attic,
paisa- was the aorist stem of
pai/w "strike," and the aorist stem of
pai/zw was
paica- (formed by analogy with
-zw-verbs from roots with
gamma).
Web address 1
Keywords: children; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 21 November 2010@01:32:54.
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