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Headword: *ca/nion
Adler number: xi,13
Translated headword: xanion
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A comb, which women carry in their snoods, in which [there is] gold jewelry on the head.
Greek Original:
*ca/nion: kte/nion, o(\ forou=sin ai( gunai=kes e)n toi=s a)nadh/masin, oi(=s ko/smos xrusou=s e)pi\ kefalh=s.
Notes:
Also -- and more intelligibly -- in Photius xi6 Theodoridis (who does not have the phrase 'in which'; instead, a pair of glosses; cf. Pollux 5.96).
The headword is attested only in grammars and lexica.
Keywords: clothing; definition; trade and manufacture; women
Translated by: James L. P. Butrica ✝ on 16 February 2000@13:16:39.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 4 July 2001@08:52:49.
David Whitehead (expanded note; another keyword; osmetics) on 27 May 2007@09:48:10.
David Whitehead (expanded note) on 18 June 2013@08:02:46.

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