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|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">turning sign in the race-course, starting point and goal of the contest</b> (Il.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: Unexplained. Of old (Curtius 546) connected with <b class="b3">νύσσω</b> (<b class="b3">*νύκ-ι̯α</b> "the thrusting one"; on the formation Schwyzer 474), what seems possible in spite of the strong doubt by Bq. Other, more or less improbable or untenable propositions by Schulze KZ 29, 262 f. (= Kl. Schr. 375), Bloomfield AmJPh. 12, 31 n. 1 (to Skt. <b class="b2">sanu-tár</b> <b class="b2">away from</b> resp. <b class="b2">sā́nu</b> [[back]]). Semitic etym. by Lewy KZ 55, 24 ff. (to be rejected); acc. to Jüthner Die Antike 15, 251 Pre-Gr.-Aegaean. | |etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">turning sign in the race-course, starting point and goal of the contest</b> (Il.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: Unexplained. Of old (Curtius 546) connected with <b class="b3">νύσσω</b> (<b class="b3">*νύκ-ι̯α</b> "the thrusting one"; on the formation Schwyzer 474), what seems possible in spite of the strong doubt by Bq. Other, more or less improbable or untenable propositions by Schulze KZ 29, 262 f. (= Kl. Schr. 375), Bloomfield AmJPh. 12, 31 n. 1 (to Skt. <b class="b2">sanu-tár</b> <b class="b2">away from</b> resp. <b class="b2">sā́nu</b> [[back]]). Semitic etym. by Lewy KZ 55, 24 ff. (to be rejected); acc. to Jüthner Die Antike 15, 251 Pre-Gr.-Aegaean. | ||
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|mdlsjtxt=[[νύσσα]], ης, ἡ, [[νύσσω]]<br />like Lat. [[meta]], the [[name]] of two posts in the [[ἱππόδρομος]]:<br /><b class="num">1.</b> the [[turning]]-[[post]], so placed that the chariots [[driving]] up the [[right]] [[side]] of the [[course]], turned [[round]] it, and returned by the [[left]] [[side]] (cf. καμπτήῤ, Il.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> the starting [[post]], [[which]] was also the [[winning]] [[post]], Hom. | |||
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