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Headword:
Nêssa
Adler number: nu,338
Translated headword: duck
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the bird [of that name]. And they say nh=tta in Attic.[1]
[Formed] out of the [verb] nw=, nh/sw, [meaning] "I dive/swim."[2]
Greek Original:Nêssa: to orneon. kai Nêtta legetai Attikôs. ek tou nô, nêsô, to kolumbô.
Notes:
[1] cf.
alphaiota 219; also Boeotian
na=ssa in
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 875. Cognate with Latin
anas, anatis.
[2] This etymology is a marginal addition in ms M; cf.
nu 226.
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 18 January 2003@00:50:51.
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