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Headword:
*ni/zei
Adler number: nu,372
Translated headword: washes
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] removes dirt, washes,[1] cleans, [a wave] washes over, wipes off.
Greek Original:*ni/zei: r(u/ptei, ni/ptei, plu/nei, klu/zei, a)posmh/xei.
Notes:
Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at
Photius nu219 Theodoridis. The headword must be quoted from somewhere; perhaps from the famous phrase of (or attributed to)
Epicharmus quoted in [
Plato],
Axiochus 396C,
Stobaeus, and elsewhere: 'one hand washes the other'.
cf.
nu 371,
nu 419.
[1] The present
ni/ptw was formed analogically from the future
ni/yw and aorist
e)/niya; the inherited root was *
nigw- with a labiovelar.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 15 December 2003@19:42:12.
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