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Headword: Liknon
Adler number: lambda,535
Translated headword: winnowing-fan
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] a sieve, or winnowing-shovel.
But some write it with a diphthong.[1]
"Having overturned the winnowing-fan lying on her knees, she ran off."[2]
Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] liknoeidh/s ["winnowing-fan-like"], [meaning] a filthy person.[3]
Greek Original:
Liknon: koskinon, êtoi ptuon. hoi de dia diphthongou graphousin. hê de anastrepsasa to liknon epi tôn gonatôn keimenon ethei. kai Liknoeidês, ho rhuparos.
Notes:
See also lambda 531, lambda 532, lambda 533, lambda 534, lambda 536.
[1] That is, lei=knon. See lambda 361, and Choeroboscus, De orthographia p. 236 line 28; Etymologicum Magnum 562.44.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler tentatively ascribed it to Aelian.)
[3] This figurative sense (of what is anyway an extremely rare word) is attested only in lexicography.
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Translated by: Craig Gibson on 3 June 2009@22:24:03.
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David Whitehead (modified tr; augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 4 June 2009@04:41:27.
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