The corpus record

ἀλαλή

alale · ἡ

loud cry, war-cry, battle

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Where it lives

Lysistrata 1 · 1.26/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
Birds 1 · 0.94/10k

What it meant

ἀλαλή · alalē — LSJ

loud cry, war-cry, battle

loud cry, μανίαι τʼ ἀλαλαί τʼ ὀρινομένων Pi. Fr. 208; ἀλαλαὶ αἰαγμάτων (v.l. ἀλαλαγαί) E. Ph. 337 :— esp. war-cry, Pi. N. 3.60; battle, Id. I. 7(6).10: comically, ἀ. μύρον χεῖτε Phoen. 3.3 :—Ἀλαλά personified, κλῦθʼ, Ἀλαλά, πολέμου θύγατερ, Pi. Fr. 78, cf. Plu. Glor.Ath. 2.349c.

In the wild

ἀλαλάνʼ · alalanʼ Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 691)
ἀλαλαὶ · alalai Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1291 (DIORISIS sentence 980)
ἀλαλαῖσι · alalaisi Euripides, Phoenissae *)ioka/sth.335 (DIORISIS sentence 139)

Where it came from

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