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Headword: *quw/nh
Adler number: theta,596
Translated headword: Thyone
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Another name for] Semele.[1] From the [verb] qu/ein, which is to rush.[2]
Greek Original:
*quw/nh: h( *seme/lh. para\ to\ qu/ein, o(/ e)stin o(rma=n.
Notes:
cf. scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.636, and on Pindar, Pythian 3.177a; also Hesychius theta84, and (e.g.) Diodorus Siculus 3.62.9, 4.25.4.
[1] Mother of Dionysos: see delta 1185.
[2] Similar glosses in other lexica (and cf. theta 586). LSJ distinguishes between qu/w (A), "sacrifice", and qu/w (B), "seethe". Confusingly, lower-case quw/nh is defined as a "portion of sacrifice" (i.e. from qu/w (A)), after the proper name has been stated to derive from qu/w (B).
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; mythology; poetry; religion; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 17 August 2007@07:11:15.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 17 August 2007@11:13:45.
Catharine Roth (augmented note, added keyword) on 17 August 2007@17:00:11.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords) on 19 August 2007@04:36:16.
David Whitehead on 7 January 2013@08:13:50.
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