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Headword:
*kre/c
Adler number: kappa,2372
Translated headword: corn-crake
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A bird of great ill-omen to those getting married.[1]
[One] with a very sharp and serrated beak.[2]
It declines kreko/s [in the genitive].
Greek Original:*kre/c: o)/rneon dusoiw/niston gamou=sin. o)cu\ pa/nu to\ r(u/gxos kai\ prionw=des e)/xon. *kreko\s kli/netai.
Notes:
The precise identification of this bird is still uncertain; the common suggestion of a corn-crake is adopted here, though its beak does not fit this description well. See Dunbar on the
Birds passage below.
[1] From glosses on
Herodotus 2.76.1, where the word occurs (web address 1).
[2] From
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Birds 1138, where
kre/kes are mentioned (web address 2).
Web address 1,
Web address 2
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 13 December 2007@05:35:36.
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