Κνυζῶ
I whimper
Translated by Nick Nicholas21 Dec 2008Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
From the [noun] ko/nuza ["fleabane"] [sc. comes the verb] konu/zw , [sc. and then] knu/zw . Hence also [sc. comes] knuzhqmo/s ["whimpering"] -- as mukw= ["I bellow"], [sc. and the cognate noun] mukhqmo/s ["bellowing"]1 -- [meaning] the plaintive howl of dogs.2
And elsewhere: "[...] and the dogs might whimper, when they got close to the forest".3
And elsewhere: "[...] and the dogs might whimper, when they got close to the forest".3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κνυζῶ· ἀπὸ τοῦ κόνυζα κονύζω, κνυζῶ. ἔνθεν καὶ κνυζηθμός, ὡς μυκῶ, μυκηθμός· ἡ τῶν κυνῶν ὑλακὴ ὀδυρτική. καὶ αὖθις· κνύζοιέν τε οἱ κύνες, ἀγχοῦ τῆς ὕλης γενόμενοι.
Betacode
*knuzw=: a)po\ tou= ko/nuza konu/zw, knuzw=. e)/nqen kai\ knuzhqmo/s, w(s mukw=, mukhqmo/s: h( tw=n kunw=n u(lakh\ o)durtikh/. kai\ au)=qis: knu/zoie/n te oi( ku/nes, a)gxou= th=s u(/lhs geno/menoi.
Notes (3)
- See also kappa 1890, kappa 1891.
- 1Uncritical abbreviation of Herodian, De prosodia catholica p. 444-445 Lentz (citing Philoxenus fr.120 Theodoridis) "
knuzw= is of both the first and the second conjugation [i.e. both regular and contracted]; its future isknuzh/sw , henceknuzhqmo/s likemukhqmo/s ... Some derive it fromko/nuza 'fleabane', as in 'ground-seeking fleabane' [Nicander, Theriaca 70], becomingknuzw= likeko/ruza >koruzw= andr(i/za >r(izw= , which is improbable. It is better to say in agreement with Philoxenus that it is derived fromknu/w , which means 'scratch'." The derivation is also given in Eustathius, Commentary on the Odyssey II p.54 Stallbaum, Etymologicum Gudianum s.v.kluzw=sai . Why "fleabane" would offer a plausible etymology for either "whimper" or "darken/destroy" (kappa 1891) is not explained by any commentator. ↩ - 2Glossed by ps.-Zonaras s.v. and Gennadius Scholarius, Grammar II p. 460 Judie Petit & Siderides as "unclear noise of dogs, and crying"; by the Etymologicum Gudianum as "crying of dogs, or inarticulate voice of crying"; by Hesychius as "a kind of vocal sound"; by the scholia to Aristophanes, Wasps 977, as "a kind of dogs' voice"; and by the scholia to Theocritus, Idylls 6.29, as "dogs' inarticulate howl". See kappa 1887. ↩
- 3Quotation unidentifiable; Adler suggests Aelian. ↩
Linked from3 entries
- κ1887Κνυζηθμόςwhimpering, whining[Meaning] the dogs' wail of lamentation. The indistinct cry of dogs.
- κ1888Κνυζημάτωνmewlings, whimperings[This word occurs] in Herodotus. That is, the sounds of distress.
- κ1890Κνυζώμενονwhimpering[Meaning] sighing. Metaphorically from puppies. "And he suspended dogs out from the battlements, so the guards could not fall asleep because of their whimpering."
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