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Headword: *mw=mar
Adler number: mu,1328
Translated headword: reproach
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] blame.[1] Or mw=mar, [meaning] one who is stupid,[2] and battle.[3]
Greek Original:
*mw=mar: o( mw=mos. h)\ *mw=mar, o( mwro/s, kai\ h( ma/xh.
Notes:
The headword -- closer to the glossing word in Greek than it sounds in translation -- is a poetic noun, used by Lycophron at Alexandra 1134; otherwise attested only in lexicography and grammars. Hesychius mu2047 glosses it as me/myis, o)/neidos, ai)=sxos. See also mu 1331.
Chantraine (s.v. mw=mos) suggests that mw=mar may be an archaic form or perhaps a false archaism, possibly influenced by mu=mar cited by Hesychius mu1867 (see alpha 1673). He says also that an etymological relationship has been proposed between mw=mar and mu=mar, assuming a rare alternation between ō and ū as in zwmo/s (zeta 136) and zu/mh (zeta 197).
[1] cf. ps.-Herodian 88 and (according to Adler) the Ambrosian Lexicon.
[2] cf. Festus: momar Siculi stultum appellant "Sicilians call a stupid man momar". See web address 1.
[3] This equivalence is unintelligible as it stands. (No textual corruption is indicated in Adler.)
Reference:
P. Chantraine, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque ed. 2 2009.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; military affairs; poetry
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 28 April 2009@22:32:01.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords) on 29 April 2009@03:20:14.
Catharine Roth (expanded note) on 30 April 2009@01:23:26.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 28 May 2013@04:54:31.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 18 December 2014@23:04:03.

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