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Headword: *mu/nh
Adler number: mu,1417
Translated headword: excuse, pretence
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] a pretext.
Greek Original:
*mu/nh: h( pro/fasis.
Notes:
Outside lexicography, grammars and scholia, this noun (here in the nominative singular) is attested only once, in the epic dative plural: Homer, Odyssey 21.111; and it is from commentary to that passage that most if not all of the attestations derive.
For the (commonplace) glossing noun cf. under pi 2852, sigma 589.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; poetry
Translated by: Max Eager on 23 June 2009@20:45:39.
Vetted by:
William Hutton (tweaked tr., added note and keywords, raised status) on 24 June 2009@01:11:27.
David Whitehead (another headword; recast primary note; x-refs) on 24 June 2009@03:27:55.
David Whitehead on 29 May 2013@05:00:39.

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