Κνυζημάτων

mewlings, whimperings

Translated by David Whitehead13 May 2008Vetting: high4 revisions

11 words

[This word occurs] in Herodotus. That is, the sounds of distress.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Κνυζημάτων· παρὰ Ἡροδότῳ. τουτέστι τῶν γοερῶν ἀποφθεγμάτων.

Betacode

*knuzhma/twn: para\ *(hrodo/tw|. toute/sti tw=n goerw=n a)pofqegma/twn.

Genitive plural, reproduced here, from Herodotus' account (2.2.3) of how Psammetichos tried to discover what a child's first word would be; cf. beta 229.
cf. generally kappa 1887, kappa 1889.

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