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Headword: *fuh/n
Adler number: phi,816
Translated headword: growth
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] increase, advancement of [= in] age.[1]
"The growth of your fingers is short, even of those that seem to be straight."[2]
Greek Original:
*fuh/n: bla/sthsin, au)/chsin h(liki/as. kurth\ de/ soi pe/fuke kai\ tw=n o)rqi/wn ei)=nai dokou/ntwn h( fuh\ tw=n daktu/lwn.
Notes:
[1] = Synagoge phi215; cf. ps.-Herodian (Epimerismi 1471), Etymologicum Magnum 801.30. Perhaps, as Adler asserts, from commentary to Homer, Iliad 1.115, where the headword appears in this form (accusative singular), though the scholia to that passage (Agamemnon describes the qualities in which he thinks his wife does not surpass the captive woman Chryseis) tend to interpret the word as 'beauty' or 'character'.
[2] Quotation (consisting of two iambic trimeters) unidentifiable; Adler reports that Bernhardy and Sternbach attributed it to George of Pisidia. The word translated as "fingers" could also mean "dates" (as in the fruit of the date-palm).
Keywords: botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; food; gender and sexuality; medicine; poetry; women
Translated by: William Hutton on 11 February 2014@11:38:51.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 11 February 2014@23:51:52.
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics; raised status) on 12 February 2014@06:25:10.

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