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Headword: *xeia=|
Adler number: chi,224
Translated headword: in a hole
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] in the hiding-place of serpents.
[It is derived] from xei=sqai ['to be poured (into)'], which is to be contained.[1] "This threshold will hold both [of us]."[2] For this is the only thing snakes contrive: the containing of the body as into a sheath.
Greek Original:
*xeia=|: th=| tw=n drako/ntwn katadu/sei. a)po\ tou= xei=sqai, o(/ e)sti xwrei=sqai. ou)do\s d' a)mfote/rous o(/de xei/setai. tou=to ga\r mo/non mhxanw=ntai oi( o)/feis, to\ xwrh=sai to\ sw=ma w(/sper ei)s e)/lutron.
Notes:
The headword noun is in the dative singular, very probably quoted from Homer, Iliad 22.93 (though the form there is xeih=| in the epic/Ionic dialect; see web address 1 below). See the A and D scholia on that line, Hesychius, Etymologicum Magnum 809.50, and (according to Adler) Lexicum Ambrosianum 175; and further, next note.
[1] This sentence = scholium A to Homer, Iliad 22.93, whence Etymologicum Magnum 809.52.
[2] Homer, Odyssey 18.17 (web address 2 below). This line is spoken by Odysseus (disguised as a tramp) to the professional beggar Irus. The entry thus appears to involve two different verbs that begin with chi: xe/w ('pour') and xanda/nw, future xei/somai ('hold', 'contain') -- both glossed with forms of another verb beginning with chi: xwre/w ('make room for', 'contain').
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; medicine; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 27 March 2008@15:16:56.
Vetted by:
William Hutton (augmented note, raised status) on 27 March 2008@18:17:24.
David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 28 March 2008@04:02:29.
David Whitehead on 11 November 2013@03:44:29.
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