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Headword: *ka/llaia
Adler number: kappa,205
Translated headword: cockscombs
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the wattles of cocks. "And see that you come back again having eaten his cockscombs".[1]
Greek Original:
*ka/llaia: oi( pw/gwnes tw=n a)lektruo/nwn. x' w(/pws ta\ ka/llai' a)pofagw\n h(/ceis pa/lin.
Notes:
The headword, neuter plural, is extracted from the quotation given.
[1] Aristophanes, Knights 497, with the gloss from the scholia there.
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; politics; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 29 November 2000@06:19:00.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth on 22 August 2003@18:37:42.
David Whitehead (expanded note) on 24 August 2003@05:09:19.
David Whitehead on 24 January 2013@08:23:56.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 22 March 2019@00:48:50.
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