Ἐλινιῶ
I dirge
Translated by William Hutton5 Feb 2007Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] I sing.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἐλινιῶ· ὑμνῶ.
Betacode
*)eliniw=: u(mnw=.
Notes
- Adler cites the unedited Ambrosian Lexicon (712) as a source for the entry, and it is taken over by ps.-Zonaras.
The headword verb, otherwise unattested (and not in LSJ), is, as Chantraine suggests, evidently derived fromai)/linon ('mournful cry', 'dirge': alphaiota 180, alphaiota 181, alphaiota 182);ai)liniw= ande)liniw= would be homophonous in the Byzantine period. A different verbal derivative from this noun has been conjectured in Dosiadas' poem Altar (Greek Anthology 15.26.15):ai)lineu=nt[a] , where most mss havee)ll- .
Though the headword has been translated here as a present verb since that seems to be how the lexicographer understood it, it is perhaps more probably future tense from a hypothetical *ai)lini/zw .