Νύμφα

bride, nymph

Translated by Catharine Roth21 Dec 2003Vetting: high3 revisions

2 notes · 14 words

[nu/mfa is the same as] nu/mfh. In Ionic dialect.¹ Like to/lmh [Ionic], to/lma [Attic].²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Νύμφα· νύμφη. Ἰωνικῶς. ὡς τόλμη, τόλμα.

Betacode

*nu/mfa: nu/mfh. *)iwnikw=s. w(s to/lmh, to/lma.

1In both Attic and Ionic, nu/mfh -- the gloss here -- is nominative; nu/mfa (with short alpha) is a vocative in epic. The Doric nominative has a long alpha. ↩
2Attic and Herodotus have to/lma, but later Ionic has to/lmh. ↩

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