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Headword: *ou)=ros
Adler number: omicron,954
Translated headword: guardian
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the border and guard of the land.[1]
In Herodotus ou)=roi [is what they call] the borders [o(/roi],[2] the boundary-placements.[3]
Greek Original:
*ou)=ros: o( th=s gh=s o(/ros kai\ fu/lac. para\ de\ *(hrodo/tw| ou)=roi oi( o(/roi, ta\ o(roqe/sia.
Notes:
[1] The headword properly only means the second of these things, but see next note.
[2] Herodotus wrote in Ionic Greek, a dialect in which orv- becomes our-. Additionally, Ionic Greek lost rough breathings via a process called de-aspiration or psilosis. Thus the word o(/ros (from *o(/rvos)--meaning "border"--appears as ou)=ros in Ionic and therefore looks identical to the word that means "guardian". See LSJ s.v. o(/ros (web address 1) for the forms in Ionic and other dialects, with an example from Herodotus (and a suggestion that the aspiration may have been lacking even in dialects without psilosis). The present entry thus reveals something interesting about ancient understanding of the morphology of Greek dialects. For a summary of Herodotus' Ionic dialect, see Flower and Marincola 2002, 44-48.
[3] This non-classical Greek word, a neuter plural, appears in the Glossae in Herodotum omicron2 s.v. ou)/roi and is glossed in Hesychius omicron1278 as "the things dividing the land" (ta\ xwri/zonta th\n gh=n).
Reference:
Flower, M.A. and Marincola, J. 2002. Herodotus Histories Book IX. Cambridge
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; imagery
Translated by: Kyle Helms on 15 August 2010@17:33:06.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 16 August 2010@04:03:06.
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