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Headword: Ϋϋ ϋϋ, ϋϋ ϋϋ, ϋϋ ϋϋ
Adler number: upsilon,1
Translated headword: uu uu, uu uu, uu uu
Vetting Status: high
Translation:

An exclamatory adverb; [the one] which in common usage we utter when smelling some meat roasting.

Greek Original:

Ϋϋ ϋϋ, ϋϋ ϋϋ, ϋϋ ϋϋ: ἐπίρρημα θαυμαστικόν: ὅπερ ἐν τῇ συνηθείᾳ λέγομεν, ὀσφραινόμενοί τινος κνίσους.

Notes:

From the scholia to Aristophanes, Wealth [Ploutos] 895, where these exclamations occur (see web address 1).
See generally LSJ s.v., where another use - to indicate alarm - is noted (in Sophocles' satyr-play Trackers).

Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food
Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 December 2003@10:33:45.
Vetted by:

Catharine Roth (added link, set status) on 22 December 2003@14:02:28.
David Whitehead (augmented note) on 23 December 2003@04:00:00.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 19 January 2011@23:33:31.

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