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Βούβαστ-ις

*boubastis

groin

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1. βούβαστις · boubastis — Beekes

βούβαστις [f.] ‘groin’ (Aét.). *ETYM Related to »βουβών; further unknown. DELG improbably considers it to have been coined after the Egyptian goddess Βούβαστις. Note that Pre-Greek has a suffix -(a)ot-; see Pre-Greek. — [Beekes, s.v. βούβαστις, p. 276]

2. βούβαστις · boubastis — Frisk

βούβαστις f. “Leiste, Schamgegend’ mit βουβαστικά n.pl. “Heilmittel gegen Wunden in der Schamgegend’ (Aöt.). — Zu βουβών, aber im übrigen unklar. Boußnris, -ἰος (Akzent?) f. gew. als „Rinderfurt‘“, „stream for watering cattle“ erklärt (Tab. Heracl. 2, 13, 14). — Als dorisch nicht zu ἔβην (ἔβαν). Eine Grundform *-Ba-erıs (Schwyzer 270) überzeugt nicht; die Zusammenstellung mit lit. getis “Viehtrift’ (Fiek 1, 407, … — [Frisk, s.v. βούβαστις, p. 288]

3. βούβαστις · boubastis — Frisk

βούβαστις. Chantr. erwägt Umbildung von βουβών nach dem ägypt. Göttinnennamen Βούβαστις. — [Frisk, s.v. βούβαστις, p. 2180]

4. Βούβαστ-ις · Boubast-is — LSJ

five

five, Theol.Ar. 31.

5. βούβαστις · boubastis — LSJ

groin, remedies for sores in the groin

groin, Aët. 4.21:—hence βουβαστικά, τά, remedies for sores in the groin, ibid.

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No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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