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Headword: *kri/gh
Adler number: kappa,2415
Translated headword: screech
Vetting Status: high
Translation:

[Meaning] the grating sound that people who are dying make with their teeth. And Aristophanes [writes]: "just like screeching Illyrians".

Greek Original:

*kri/gh: o( tw=n a)poqnhsko/ntwn trismo\s toi=s o)dou=si gino/menos. kai\ *)aristofa/nhs: w(/sper *)illurioi\ kekrigo/tes.

Note:

See already at kappa 1267.

Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; medicine
Translated by: David Whitehead on 13 December 2007@06:51:26.
Vetted by:

Catharine Roth (set status) on 13 December 2007@19:43:43.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 18 March 2013@04:18:57.

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