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• RE: How to prove that the B-language is not Greek?

  Linda > 21-10-2024, 12:34 AM

  (20-10-2024, 10:43 PM)Ruby Novacna Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The EVA word cheodoiidaiin/ cheoda?daiin, from page f113v, which I read on first reading as kio8au8aun, could be a Greek word γεωδαιτων, gen pl of γεωδαίτης =γεωδαίστης - land-surveyor.
  This word also exists in modern Greek: γεωδαίτης (geodaítis) m or f (plural γεωδαίτες) - (geography, cartography) - geodesist, cartographic surveyor, land surveyor.
  Do you think that the term cartographic or land surveyor has its place in the manuscript?

  
  I do!

• RE: How to prove that the B-language is not Greek?

  Ruby Novacna > 11-03-2025, 12:39 AM

  Reading "ol" as "a", I have gathered on my blog several possibilities of reading the word EVA "olchey".
  And yet I do not see, for the moment, any apparent reason to abandon the reading as "ol".
  Hesychius gives the word ὁλκεῖς, taken up in LSJ: ὁλκεύς, έως, pl. ὁλκεῖς, but keeping the Greek explanation, without translating into English: οἳ τὰ ἀμφίβληστρα ἐπισπῶνται.
  When LSJ does not translate, I wonder if the sentence is not incomprehensible or ambiguous. 
  Can you please help me translate it or find an existing translation?

• RE: How to prove that the B-language is not Greek?

  Ruby Novacna > 12-03-2025, 09:06 PM

  The word ἀμφίβληστρα is the nominative or accusative plural of ἀμφίβληστρον, which means what is thrown round: fetters, bonds, hunting or fishing nets, tunics, temple walls, etc.
  The word ἐπισπῶνται is the 3rd pl pres ind mp of ἐπισπάω - draw or drag after one, metaph., bring on, cause; pull to; attract, gain, win; draw on, allure, persuade; Med., absorb; Med., draw in, call in; overturn; Med., draw the prepuce forward, become as if uncircumcised.
  I confess that at the moment I don't know what to think: are these the tunics (re)pulled, the walls of a temple overturned, or something completely different?

• RE: How to prove that the B-language is not Greek?

  Ruby Novacna > 15-03-2025, 07:53 PM

  What intrigues me most is that such a short word can mean so many things.

• RE: How to prove that the B-language is not Greek?

  RobGea > 15-03-2025, 08:02 PM

  The English word 'set' has 430 senses :: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
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