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Headword: *knhmoi/
Adler number: kappa,1867
Translated headword: shoulders
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] protruding parts of mountains.
"When [...] it over shoulders and bushy ravines".[1]
Greek Original:
*knhmoi/: e)coxai\ tw=n o)rw=n. o(ppo/te min knhmou/s te kata\ lasi/ous te xara/dras.
Notes:
The headword, here (as usual: see LSJ) in the plural, is related to knhmi/s "shin" (kappa 1865), since the shin is above the foot of the mountain.
[1] Greek Anthology 6.255.3 (Erycius): "when, searching for it [the bull] over shoulders and bushy ravines, he [Saon of Ambracia (cf. alpha 1536)] blocked it off on the banks, as it was cooling its hooves and flanks"; more fully at chi 86.
Keywords: botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; imagery; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 16 December 2008@10:04:18.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (cosmetics, keywords, status) on 16 December 2008@21:31:40.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note at NN's request) on 17 December 2008@00:37:37.
David Whitehead (another x-ref; another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 17 December 2008@03:31:12.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaking) on 5 March 2013@06:15:36.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 30 September 2019@00:03:01.
Ronald Allen (added cross-reference n.1) on 24 October 2022@12:33:18.

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