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αἰσάλων

aisalon

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What it meant

1. αἰσάλων · aisalōn — Beekes

αἰσάλων [m.] kind of falcon (Arist.); see Thompson 1895. VAR Cf. αἰσάρων: εἶδος ἱέρακος ‘id.’ (H.). *ETYM Fur.: 387 gives it as Pre-Greek form with the variation p/ λ, of which he has more than 30 examples. — [Beekes, s.v. αἰσάλων, p. 90]

2. αἰσάλων · aisalōn — Chantraine

αἰσάλων, -wvos : In. espèce de faucon, probablement Falco aesalon (Arist., Hist. An. 609 b, etc.) cf. Thompson, Birds s.u. Hsch. donne une forme αἰσάρων - εἶδος ἱέρακος. Et.: Non établie. Hypothèses de Krause qui croit le mot thrace (KZ 67,214); de Kretschmer, Οἱ. 11, 281, qui rattache αἰσάλων αἰσάρων à un « pélasgique » Yaloæpos = ἱερός (ct. d'autre part ἱέραξ à côté de ἱερός ?). — [Chantraine, s.v. αἰσάλων, p. 53]

3. αἰσάλων · aisalōn — Frisk

αἰσάλων m. “Falkenart’, vgl. Thompson Birds s. v. (Arist., Ael., Plin.), αἰσάρων " εἶδος ἱέρακος H. Herkunft unbekannt. Nach Krause (s. aicaxos) thrakisch. Nach Kretschmer Glotta 11,281 aus einem pelasgisch-tyrrhenischen *«loagos = ἱερός substantiviert. Aber das synonyme ἱέραξ gehört nicht zu ἱερός ‘heilig’, sondern, wie Kretschmer selbst hervorhebt, zu (F)ıepös ‘rasch’. — [Frisk, s.v. αἰσάλων, p. 75]

4. αἰσάλων · aisalōn — LSJ

merlin, Falco aesalon

a kind of hawk, prob. merlin, Falco aesalon, Arist. HA 609b8, Plin. HN 10.205:—αἰσάρων, Hsch.

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