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[464] ταναύποδα, i. e. “ταναϝόποδα”, the “υ” representing the digamma. So we find “αὔως” for “ἀϝώς” (“ἠώς”), “ἀυέρυσαν, καλαῦροψ”, and, notably, “ταλαύρινος”= “ταλα-ύρινο-ς”, i. e. “ταλά-ϝρινο-ς”. See Curt. G. E. 496 foll.

δημός, ‘fat,’ is connected by Weber with “δαίω”, as if the sacrificial fat for burning: but against this meaning we have the fact that “δημός” is used for the fat of human beings as well as of animals.

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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