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Headword: *pura/gran
Adler number: pi,3185
Translated headword: tongs
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] pincer[s], a crab[-like thing].
[sc. The term puragra comes] from dragging [ag-] and snatching [agr-], which is taking, [something] out of a fire [pur].
Greek Original:
*pura/gran: karki/non, pa/gouron. para\ to\ e)k tou= puro\s a)/gein kai\ a)greu/ein, o(/ e)sti lamba/nein.
Note:
See already pi 3184. The present entry draws on Homer, Iliad 18.477 (where the present accusative-case headword appears, in the form pura/grhn), and the scholia there.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: David Whitehead on 18 March 2010@08:44:11.
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Catharine Roth (tweak, status) on 25 May 2010@01:38:50.
David Whitehead (corrected my x-ref) on 25 May 2010@04:00:55.
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