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Headword:
Dusermias
Adler number: delta,1621
Translated headword: of ill-luck
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] of a bad misfortune;[1] for good fortune is called eu)ermi/a.[2]
Greek Original:Dusermias: kakês apotuchias: euermian gar tên epituchian kalousi.
Notes:
cf.
delta 1622 for the related adjective. The abstract noun, here, is attested only in lexicography.
[1] =
Photius,
Lexicon delta812; The headword, in the genitive case (as is the gloss), must be quoted from somewhere but is not independently attested. Cf.
Hesychius delta2564:
dusermi/a: kakh\ suntuxi/a "a bad occurrence".
[2] See
Etymologicum Magnum 291.49:
*dusermi/a: h( dustuxi/a, h( kakh\ e)pituxi/a. eu)ermi/an ga\r th\n e)pituxi/an kalou=sin, apo\ tou= to\n *)ermh=n ei)s polla\ parakalei=sqai biwfelh= ("ill-luck: bad fortune; for good fortune is called
eu)ermi/a, because Hermes is invoked for many useful things"); cf.
epsilon 3442.
Keywords: aetiology; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; religion
Translated by: Stefano Sanfilippo on 4 March 2005@18:25:51.
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