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ἁλής

ales

thronged, crowded

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Where it lives

On the False Embassy 3 · 1.3/10k
Histories 15 · 0.82/10k

What it meant

1. ἁλής · halēs — Beekes

ἁλής [adj.] ‘thronged, crowded’ (Hdt.). 41Ὲ *uel- ‘press’> eVAR Or ἀλής: the spiritus asper is uncertain. It is regular in ἁλής, but not for Dor. aria. *DER ἁλίζω ‘to gather’ (lon. poet.); abstract ἁλίη (public) assembly’ (Dor. dia). From it Dor. ἀλιαία ‘id.’, Att. ἡλιαία ‘tribunal’, where the ἡ- must be a false Ionicism of a Doric LW, see Meyer Phil. 48 (1889): 187. Thence ἡλιάζομαι [v.] ‘to be seated in the … — [Beekes, s.v. ἁλής, p. 113]

2. ἁλής · halēs — Chantraine

ἁλής, -ἧς, -Éc : « rassemblé », terme ionien qui répond à l'attique &Bp6oc (Hat., Hp., Cali. fr. 191,9 qui confirme. l'alpha long). Verbes dérivés : ἁλίζω, ἥλισα, pass. ἡλίσθην, part. pf. ἁλισμένος chez Hdt., « rassembler », notamment en parlant de forces militaires (Hdt., Hp., E., rare en prose attique). Surtout employé dans le composé συναλίζω (Hp., Hdt., Xén.). Dérivés nominaux : ἅλία «assemblée», notamment dans … — [Chantraine, s.v. ἁλής, p. 73]

3. ἁλής · halēs — Frisk

ἁλής (ἀλής) “versammelt, zusammengedrängt’ (ion.). — Denominatives Verb dAldw ‘versammeln’ (ion. poet.). Abstraktbildung dAin, dor. ἀλέα *“(Volks)versammlung’. Erweiterte Form dor. ἀλιαία ‘ds’, att. ἡλιαία “Versammlung (der Richter), Volksgericht, Gerichtshof’ (zum Anlaut vgl. unten). — Davon ἡλιάξομαι “in der ἡλιαία sitzen’ (Ar.) mit ἡλιαστής (dor. ἀλ-) “Volksrichter’, falls nicht direkt vom Nomen nach Muster von … — [Frisk, s.v. ἁλής, p. 101]

4. ἁλής · halēs — Frisk

ἁλής. Chantr. bemerkt richtig, daß auch eine Grundform *a&- Feivijs möglich ist. — [Frisk, s.v. ἁλής, p. 2152]

5. ἁλής · halēs — LSJ

thronged, crowded, in a mass, sṃ

thronged, crowded, in a mass, πολλὰ ἁλέα Hp. Mul. 1.5, cf. Hdt. 1.133; ὡς ἁλέες εἴησαν οἱ Ἕλληνες Hdt. 9.15, cf. 7.104, al.: sg. with collective nouns, ἁ. γενομένη πᾶσα ἡ Ἑλλάς 7.157; ἁ. ἐὼν ὁ στρατός ib. 236; ἁ. τροφή, αἷμα, Hp. Vict. 2.45, Morb. 2.4. Adv. -έως prob. in Hp. Mul. 1.36: neut. pl.as Adv., ἐκχέουσιν τὸ οὖρον ἁλέα Aret. SD 2.2. [ᾱ, Call. Fr. 86; ἀλέα λέσχην is v.l. Hes. Op. 493.] (sṃ-ϝαλής, cf. ϝαλῆναι.)

In the wild

Ἁλέας · Haleas Demosthenes, On the False Embassy Narr.174 (DIORISIS sentence 585)
Ἁλέας · Haleas Demosthenes, On the False Embassy Narr.36 (DIORISIS sentence 87)
Ἁλεῖς · Haleis Demosthenes, On the False Embassy Narr.39 (DIORISIS sentence 99)
ἁλέσι · halesi Herodotus, Histories 1.133.2 (DIORISIS sentence 976)
ἁλέας · haleas Herodotus, Histories 1.196.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1393)
ἁλέες · halees Herodotus, Histories 2.63.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1980)

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ἁλής (scan p. 113; entry #353). Root candidates: *uel-.
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ἁλής (scan pp. 73-74; entry #369).
Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ἁλής (scan p. 101; entry #346).

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