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Headword:
*ti/gris
Adler number: tau,559
Translated headword: tiger, Tigris
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [A 'tiger' is] the creature [of that name]. But Tigres [is] a river's name.
Greek Original:*ti/gris: to\ zw=|on. *ti/grhs de\ o)/noma potamou=.
Notes:
Similarly in other lexica and grammars.
For the R.Tigris see OCD(4) s.v. and Barrington Atlas map 91 grid F4. The Tigris rises in Armenia, is roughly parallel to the longer Euphrates (
epsilon 3810) to the south, and flows through Iraq into the Persian Gulf.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 8 December 2002@09:52:21.
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