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Headword: *plinqeu/etai
Adler number: pi,1772
Translated headword: is made into bricks
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[He/she/it] is duped. Because mud is insensate.
Greek Original:
*plinqeu/etai: e)capata=tai. a)po\ th=s a)naisqhsi/as tou= phlou=.
Notes:
Present indicative middle/passive, third person singular, of plinqeu/w (cf. under pi 1773); same glossing in Photius pi950 Theodoridis, and cf. already Hesychius pi2601; evidently quoted from somewhere, but not otherwise attested.
For this and other figurative senses of the verb see LSJ s.v. plinqeu/w III; and see also epsilon 2789.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; imagery; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 15 March 2007@00:49:49.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords) on 15 March 2007@04:44:23.
David Whitehead (typo; another x-ref) on 24 December 2007@06:15:52.
David Whitehead on 19 October 2011@08:53:13.
Catharine Roth (typo) on 19 October 2011@10:17:05.
David Whitehead on 6 October 2013@08:39:01.

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