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Headword:
*)/alfi
Adler number: alpha,1451
Translated headword: barley-meal
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [
a)/lfi is short for]
a)/lfiton. This [sc. cutting-off the end of a word] is called bitten-off, which they say
Epicharmus first discovered.
*)/alfi: a)/lfiton. tou=to de\ kalei=tai a)po/trwkton, o(/ fasi prw=ton eu(rei=n *)epi/xarmon.
Notes:
Same or similar entry in other lexica; references at
Photius alpha1070 Theodoridis. (Entry cross-referenced, briefly, at
alpha 3618.)
cf. generally
alpha 1452,
alpha 1453,
alpha 1454,
alpha 1455,
alpha 1456.
[1]
Epicharmus [
epsilon 2766] fr. 223 Kaibel, now 201 K.-A. The phenomenon (more commonly known as apocope) itself, however, predates him: LSJ notes an instance of, precisely,
a)/lfi in one of the
Homeric Hymns. Chantraine s.v. supposes that
a)/lfi was the original form, an old athematic noun which may have had *
a)lfatos as its genitive with an alternation of
i/n.
P. Chantraine, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque, ed. 2. Paris 2009.
Keywords: aetiology; biography; botany; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; imagery; poetry
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 8 June 2000@16:09:19.
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