Note 590 — Chapter II · THE SURVIVAL OF PAGAN DEITIES. (continued 4)
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Polites backs up this meaning by deriving baboutzicarios (on which see above, p. 217) from παποῦτσι (Arabic bābouch) ‘a shoe,’ but reluctantly refuses to accept the identification of καλιοντζῆς (above, p. 215) with γαλόντζης, a maker of γαλόντσας or ‘wooden shoes.’ Παραδ. II. 1253.