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Headword:
*ka=la
palai/qeta
Adler number: kappa,201
Translated headword: woods long-positioned
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] dry timbers, [ones] put aside a long while ago. For a "wood" is a timber.[1] Out of this [word] also [comes] "wood-foot", a wooden foot.[2]
Greek Original:*ka=la palai/qeta: chra\ cu/la, e)k pollou= a)poteqe/nta xro/nou. ka=lon ga\r to\ cu/lon. e)c ou(= kai\ kalo/pous, o( cu/linos pou=s.
Notes:
The headword phrase, in the neuter plural, is quoted from
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 242.
[1] cf.
kappa 186,
kappa 195,
kappa 211,
kappa 247.
[2] This is a "cobbler's last" or "shoemaker's last", a foot carved from wood and used by shoemakers as a form for fashioning or repairing shoes. See web address 1 below for the LSJ entry on
kalo/pous; and
kappa 248.
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Keywords: botany; clothing; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; poetry; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 10 March 2008@05:01:54.
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