Talk:δάχη

RFV discussion: February–May 2021
Replacing rfv-quote with full rfv. &mdash; surjection &lang;??&rang; 16:29, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Huh. The entry claims it's from Hesychius's Lexicon, but this word isn't listed at Γλώσσαι/Δ, or indeed anywhere else at Greek Wikisource as far as Google can tell. It also isn't in LSJ, which usually includes Hesychius's entries. —Mahāgaja · talk 11:54, 9 February 2021 (UTC)


 * For what it is worth, Aristotle’s ' VIII:22, contains, in some editions, the phrase “Τούτων ἡ λύττα ἐμποιεῖ μανίαν, καὶ ὅταν δάκῃ, λυττῶσιν ἅπαντα τὰ δηχθέντα πλὴν ἀνθρώπου”.Greek Wikisource In Loeb’s the bolded word is absent, but it has an additional word ἀναιρεῖ at the end of the phrase. In a few editions, this word is rendered as δάχῃ'. Neither form is in LSJ or in Beekes. In the translation of, the phrase is “Rabies drives the animal mad, and any animal whatever, excepting man, will take the disease if bitten by a dog so afflicted”. It is not clear which words, if any, correspond here to the Greek word δάκῃ/δάχῃ; but note that “by a dog so afflicted” has no clear counterpart in the Greek text. A literal translation, leaving the mystery word untranslated, is something like: “Of all these [diseases] rabies produces madness, and when to dákē'', all the bitten but man develop rabies”. The claimed Hesychian sense of “tongue” is not helpful. --Lambiam 16:32, 9 February 2021 (UTC)


 * RFV-deleted. According to someone on the Wiktionary Discord, it was made up by the editor. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 05:01, 2 May 2021 (UTC)