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• Title:
  A Babylonian Coat in Aristophanes’ Fragment 791
• Creator:
  Rosół, Rafał
• Description:
  In the Etymological Dictionary of Akkadian, recently published, the noun pampallu ‘a garment or a woollen cloth’ is accompanied by a short note: “Of interest is a Phrygian word for a ‘coat’ (and the genitals) transmitted by Hesychios: βάμβαλον· ἱμάτιον· καὶ τὸ αἰδοῖον. Φρύγες”. The paper presents some other relevant data, especially Aristophanes’ fragment 791, attested in the lexicon of Photius: βάμβαλον· ἱμάτιον Βαβυλώνιον. οὕτως Ἀριστοφάνης – “bambalon: a Babylonian coat. Aristophanes [says] so”. The final result of the study is that there are two homonyms: 1. βάμβαλον ‘a Babylonian-style warm coat’, and 2. βά(μ)βαλον ‘genitals’. The former is a Semitic borrowing connected with the Akkadian pampallu, the latter is probably Phrygian, but its etymology remainsunknown.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
• Date:
  2023.09.20
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuł naukowy
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae; Vol. 33 No. 1 (2023); 351-357;
  Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae; Tom 33 Nr 1 (2023); 351-357;
  2720-2305;
  0302-7384
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sppgl/article/view/39438/33386
• Subject:
  etymology;
  Oriental loanwords in Greek;
  Phrygian language;
  Akkadian language;
  old comedy
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sppgl/article/view/39438
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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