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Wednesday, January 17, 2018

An oar in every man's boat

Not too long ago, one of our constant correspondents proposed the etymology of GREEK koupí “oar.” I do not know the origin of that word and will probably never know. Koupí did not show up in my most detailed dictionary of Classical GREEK, and I suspect that we are dealing with a relative late coinage.


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