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Headword:
Neilos
Adler number: nu,289
Translated headword: Neilos, Nile
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the river [of that name].[1]
And in the neuter [is attested the term] *neilome/trion ["Nile-gauge"], [meaning] the measure of the Nile.[2]
Also [attested is] *neilw/|ois ["Nilotic"].[3]
Also [attested is] *nei=los [Nilos, Nilus], a proper name.[4]
For they say *ne/i+los from ne/ein ["swimming"] (that is, flowing) i)lu/n ["mud"], so that [the name] is *ne/i+los, [contracted to] *nei=los.[5]
See about the Nile under Brahmans.[6]
Greek Original:Neilos: ho potamos. kai oudeterôs Neilometrion, to tou Neilou metron. kai Neilôiois. kai Neilos, onoma kurion. Neïlos gar phasi para to neein, êgoun rheein, ilun, hina êi Neïlos, Neilos. zêtei peri tou Neilou en tôi Brachmanes.
Notes:
This entry combines material paralleled in other lexica.
[1] See also
epsilon 3309.
[2] i.e. an instrument for measuring it. See e.g.
Strabo 17.1.48.
[3] Dative plural, masculine or neuter; probably the latter, if the noun implicit is 'waters'. In any event, quoted from somewhere.
[4] For example, Nilus the elder of
Sinai (died c.430).
[5] cf.
nu 306.
[6]
beta 524.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 22 August 2006@20:32:42.
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