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Headword: *somfw=des
Adler number: sigma,787
Translated headword: porous
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning something] spongy.
Greek Original:
*somfw=des: to\ xau=non.
Notes:
Neuter singular of this adjective, presumably quoted from somewhere. In ps-Zonaras the present gloss is preceded by '[something] hilly'; and Hesychius sigma1333 glosses the feminine plural somfw/deis with the phrase 'the more/rather spongy of beaches'.
Entry lacking, Adler reports, in mss AFV (but a marginal addition in A).
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; science and technology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 24 September 2010@06:21:30.
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Catharine Roth (set status) on 25 September 2010@01:41:55.
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