Αἰγίλιψ

Where it lives

• Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.

In the wild

• Αἰγίλιπα · Aigilipa Iliad 2.633

Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Αἰγίλιψ (scan p. 79; entry #197). Root candidates: *leip-.
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Αἰγίλιψ (scan p. 44; entry #186).
• Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Αἰγίλιψ (scan p. 2146; entry #6315).

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