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Headword:
*nausika/a
Adler number: nu,70
Translated headword: Nausikaa, Nausicaa
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proper name.[1]
Homer mentions Nausikaa, a royal Phaiacian child, [named] appropriately for the [Phaiacian] land; because, as mariners par excellence, they used to burn [
e)pe/-ka-ion] pitch onto their ships [
nausi/] to make them secure.[2]
*nausika/a: o)/noma ku/rion. me/mnhtai *(/omhros *nausika/as *faiakikh=s basilikh=s paido\s prosfuw=s th=| xw/ra|: e)pei\ nautikw/tatoi o)/ntes e)pe/kaion tai=s nausi\ pi/ssan pro\s a)sfa/leian.
Notes:
[1] In (principally)
Homer,
Odyssey 6-8. (First at 6.17: web address 1.) See generally OCD(4) s.v. Nausicaa; and cf.
alpha 1817 (=
omicron 671 =
sigma 1720),
alpha 2148,
phi 457.
[2] A marginal addition in ms M, proposing an etymology that is almost certainly incorrect.
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Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; gender and sexuality; geography; mythology; science and technology; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 17 December 2003@09:48:49.
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