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Headword: Ἀγνύθες
Adler number: alpha,289
Translated headword: loom-weights
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The stones of the loom.
Greek Original:
Ἀγνύθες: οἱ λίθοι τοῦ ἱστοῦ.
Notes:
Same entry elsewhere, though with the accentuation ἀγνῦθες . The word does not seem to have an Indo-European etymology, and Chantraine s.v. suggests that it may be borrowed.
LSJ entry at web address 1.
Reference:
OCD(3) 1489-90 (s.v. "textile production", by J.P. Wild)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: clothing; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; science and technology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 26 February 2001@00:45:26.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added bibliography and keyword) on 26 February 2001@03:10:55.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 5 January 2012@08:09:41.
Catharine Roth (expanded note) on 5 January 2012@19:23:13.
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