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Headword: *yu/lleion
Adler number: psi,153
Translated headword: flea-wort
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A plant.[1]
Also [sc. attested is] yulli/zw ["I catch fleas"]; [used] with an accusative.[2]
Greek Original:
*yu/lleion: bota/nh. kai\ *yulli/zw: ai)tiatikh=|.
Notes:
[1] Plantago psyllium. [Also a Black Sea toponym in Ptolemy, Geography 5.1.7; the 'Psillion' of Barrington Atlas map 52 grid F2.]
[2] Cognate, presumably. Besides here, the verb is attested only once, apparently in the middle voice, of an ascetic searching himself for fleas.
Keywords: botany; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 1 January 2006@05:58:37.
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Catharine Roth (cosmetics, status) on 1 January 2006@22:12:50.
David Whitehead (notes; cosmetics) on 2 January 2006@03:42:45.
David Whitehead (typo and other cosmetics; augmented notes) on 5 August 2011@06:48:50.
David Whitehead on 5 August 2011@06:49:05.
David Whitehead on 6 November 2013@09:31:55.
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