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Headword:
*prw=|
Adler number: pi,2940
Translated headword: early
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [A] monosyllabic [word]. It means before [its/one's] time, and at dawn.[1]
Aristophanes [writes]: "[...] having bathed early. For I'm getting ready to host a wedding."[2]
"Whoever does not come very early dusted with darkness."[3] [Pronounced] monosyllabically.[4]
*prw=|: monosu/llabon. shmai/nei de\ to\ pro\ kairou=, kai\ to\ e(/wqen. *)aristofa/nhs: lousa/menos prw/|. me/llw ga\r e(stia=n ga/mous. o(\s a)\n mh\ prw\| pa/nu tou= kne/fous h(/kh| kekonime/nos. monosulla/bws.
Notes:
[1] cf.
Phrynichus the Atticist 106.5-6, Orus the Black fr. 140,
Pausanias the Atticist pi34,
Hesychius pi4136.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Birds 132 (here with the unmetrical
lousa/menos in place of
Aristophanes'
lousa/mena). See web address 1.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae 290-292 (web address 2); already at
kappa 1254.
[4] That is, not
prwi+/, like
pi 2944 and
pi 2945. For the monosyllabic form, see also
pi 2939 and
pi 2941 and, for related words,
pi 2946,
pi 1947,
pi 2948.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: chronology; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; gender and sexuality; imagery; poetry; politics; stagecraft; women
Translated by: William Hutton on 8 October 2013@18:38:50.
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