1. αἱμασιά · haimasia — Beekes
The corpus record
αἱμᾰσιά
aimasia
wall around a terrain
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Where it lives
- Against Callicles 6 · 28.64/10k
- Histories 8 · 0.44/10k
- Odyssey 2 · 0.23/10k
- History 1 · 0.07/10k
What it meant
αἱμασιά [f.] ‘wall around a terrain’, of stone (thus Hdt. 2, 138) or thorns (Od.). «ἡ» VAR Cf. aipol: δρυμοί. Αἰσχύλος Aitvaiais ‘copses, thickets (A. Aitnaiai)’ (H.). *ETYM Comparable with Lat. sae pés ‘hedge, fence’, which has p for m. Fur. 223 finds the variation in other non-IE loans, eg. Πενέσται / Mevéotat (Schwyzer: 333), γέφυρα / Arm. kamurj. On the accentuation, see Scheller 1951: 87f.; on the meaning, … — [Beekes, s.v. αἱμασιά, p. 86]
2. αἱμασιά · haimasia — Frisk
αἱμασιά (seit Od.) “Umfriedigung, Zaun, Mauer’, aus Stein (so sicher Hdt. 2, 138), wohl auch aus Dornen, vgl. αἱμοί" δρυμοί. Αἰσχύλος Αἰτναίαις H. Ableitung αἱμασιώδης (Pl.). — Seit Froehde BB 17, 318 wird αἱμασιά gewöhnlich mit lat. saepes verglichen, so zuletzt Specht KZ 68, 124 mit dem Versuch, einen Wechsel p : m morphologisch zu begründen. Andere Vorschläge bei Bq und WP. 2, 464. — Zur Betonung vgl. Scheller … — [Frisk, s.v. αἱμασιά, p. 69]
3. αἱμᾰσιά · haimasia — LSJ
wall, walls
wall of dry stones, αἱμασιάς τε λέγειν to lay walls, Od. 18.359; αἱ. λέξοντες 24.224, cf. Hdt. 2.69, Theoc. 7.22; αἱ. ἐγγεγλυμμένη τύποισι Hdt. 2.138: of the walls of a city or fortress, Id. 1.180, 191, Th. 4.43; αἱ. περιοικοδομῆσαι D. 55.11; ἐφʼ αἱμασιῇσιν ἥμενος Theoc. 1.47, cf. IG 12(3).248 (Anaphe).
In the wild
- αἱμασιὰν · haimasian Demosthenes, Against Callicles 11 (DIORISIS sentence 28)
- αἱμασιάν · haimasian Demosthenes, Against Callicles 14 (DIORISIS sentence 39)
- αἱμασιάν · haimasian Demosthenes, Against Callicles 22 (DIORISIS sentence 71)
- αἱμασιὰν · haimasian Demosthenes, Against Callicles 27 (DIORISIS sentence 81)
- αἱμασιὰν · haimasian Demosthenes, Against Callicles 28 (DIORISIS sentence 82)
- αἱμασιὰν · haimasian Demosthenes, Against Callicles 30 (DIORISIS sentence 89)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. αἱμᾰσιά (scan p. 86; entry #225).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. αἱμᾰσιά (scan pp. 69-70; entry #208).
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