التَّحَايِى

Root: حى

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التَّحَايِى The two stars in the foot and before the foot of the foremost of Gemini: or three stars over against الهَنْعَة [which is the Sixth Mansion of the Moon]; and sometimes the moon deviates from الهنعة, and makes its abode in التحايى: they are between the Milky Way and the stars that follow العَيُّوق [or Capella]: Aboo-Ziyád El-Kilábee used to say that this name means الهنعة, and is also pronounced التَّحَائِى, withء: but AHn says that the moon makes its abode in these stars, and not in الهنعة itself: its sing. is تِحْيَاةٌ ; if so, of the measure تِفْعَلَةٌ, like تِحْلَبَةٌ, not فِعْلَاةٌ, like عِزْهَاةٌ, because there is no such root as تَحى; derived from الحَيَا, because its نَوْء [here meaning its auroral setting, in midwinter,] is attended with much rain: but التحائى, with ء, is irreg.; as though pl. of تَحِيَّةٌ likened to a word of the measure فَعِيلَةٌ.

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