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Headword: *tafh/i+on
Adler number: tau,190
Translated headword: sepulchral; shroud
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning something] having to do with burial.
Greek Original:
*tafh/i+on: e)nta/fion.
Notes:
From a scholion on Homer, Odyssey 2.99 (= 19.144 = 24.134); Penelope weaves a shroud for her father-in-law- Laertes. The headword, there as again here, is neuter singular.
cf. Hesychius tau276 for the same in plurals.
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics; mythology; trade and manufacture; women
Translated by: James Inman on 7 March 2014@14:58:57.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (expanded note, tweaked translation, set status) on 8 March 2014@01:36:04.
David Whitehead (further expansion of note; more keywords; raised status) on 9 March 2014@04:55:53.

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