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Headword:
*(rei=a
Adler number: rho,109
Translated headword: easily
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] lightly, readily,[1] conveniently, forcefully.
Homer [says]: "easily did I know as he left".[2]
Also [sc. attested is the singular] easy,[3] [meaning something] manageable, light.[4]
*(rei=a: r(a|di/ws, eu)ko/lws, eu)marw=s, i)sxurw=s. *(/omhros: r(ei=' e)/gnwn a)pio/ntos. kai\ *(rei=on, eu)xere/s, eu)/kolon.
Notes:
The headword is an epic adverb; a better spelling would be
r(h=a. The form
r(e/a also occurs, often where a monosyllabic scansion is possible, perhaps representing an Aeolic
r(a= which is also the Attic and Doric form. Grammarians cite
bra= (or
bra=|) as Aeolic -- that is,
vra=.
Also
rho 110; see similar entries in
Photius and
Hesychius; cf.
Etymologicum Gudianum s.v.
[1] cf. the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 2.475, where the headword occurs.
[2]
Homer,
Iliad 13.72 (web address 1).
[3] The form
r(ei=on is attested only here, in fact.
[4] cf.
rho 40.
P. Chantraine, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque, ed. 2, Paris 2009
Associated internet address:
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Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic
Translated by: Ioannis Doukas on 15 October 2007@21:18:13.
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