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Headword: *skapa/nh
Adler number: sigma,537
Translated headword: spade
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning a] scooper, trowel, mattock.[1]
What among us is called a shovel.[2]
Greek Original:
*skapa/nh: ska/fion, o)ru/gion, dike/llion. o( par' h(mi=n tzo/kos lego/menos.
Notes:
[1] = Hesychius sigma851, Synagoge sigma105, Photius sigma279 Theodoridis; cf. Pollux 7.148, 10.129. Some of the glosses offered here on this feminine noun also occur in the scholia to Theocritus, Idylls 4.10, where the Doric accusative singular form of the headword occurs (in reference to an athlete taking exercise).
[2] Adler reports this additional sentence as absent from mss AF, though it appears in the margin of A in a more recent hand. The word used as a gloss here, tzo/kos, first appears in Byzantine sources. Its precise meaning is uncertain but is sometimes used in the context of implements used for undermining walls in a siege, e.g. Nicephorus Uranus, Tactica 65.17.
Keywords: agriculture; athletics; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; military affairs; poetry; science and technology
Translated by: William Hutton on 1 February 2014@12:03:05.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 1 February 2014@12:21:05.
David Whitehead (augmented n.1; another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 2 February 2014@04:33:59.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 2 February 2014@11:25:22.
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