Λακάνη
hod, flat pan
Translated by Oliver Phillips ✝26 Aug 2004Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
What in common dialect [sc. is the headword] laka/nh ; from the intensive prefix la- and the [verb] xai/nein ['to gape open']; for [it is] flat; but the Attic form [is] leka/nh .
Greek original · Adler’s text
Λακάνη· τὸ μὲν κοινὸν λακάνη· παρὰ τὸ λα ἐπιτατικὸν καὶ τὸ χαίνειν· πλατὺ γάρ· τὸ δὲ Ἀττικὸν λεκάνη.
Betacode
*laka/nh: to\ me\n koino\n laka/nh: para\ to\ la e)pitatiko\n kai\ to\ xai/nein: platu\ ga/r: to\ de\ *)attiko\n leka/nh.
Notes
- From the scholia to Aristophanes, Birds 1143, where the Attic-dialect version of the headword appears: 'herons [carried the mortar] in hods'. Again at lambda 230.
Outside lexicography, the koine form of the word occurs once in the Septuagint (Judges 5.25). The Attic form occurs several times in Aristophanes: Birds 840 as well as 1143 (hod); Clouds 907 and Wasps 600 (pan). Contrary to the etymology proffered here, the term seems simply to be an expanded form of the Attic nounle/kos 'pan'.
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- modified note — Catharine Roth
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- tweaking — David Whitehead
- augmented note; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Oliver Phillips ✝