Ἅλιος

Where it lives

• Hecuba 2 · 2.79/10k
• Trachiniae 2 · 2.75/10k
• Electra 1 · 1.15/10k
• Oedipus Tyrannus 1 · 1.08/10k
• Odyssey 2 · 0.23/10k
• 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

• Ἅλιος · Halios Euripides, Hecuba (DIORISIS sentence 325)
• Ἅλιε · Halie Euripides, Hecuba (DIORISIS sentence 600)
• Ἅλιόν · Halion Iliad 5.678
• Ἅλιός · Halios Odyssey 8.119
• Ἅλιον · Halion Odyssey 8.370
• Ἅλιος · Halios Sophocles, Electra 823–825

6 of 9 attestations shown. Ask for more.

Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Ἅλιος (scan p. 116; entry #365).
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Ἅλιος (scan p. 75; entry #384).
• Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Ἅλιος (scan p. 104; entry #359).

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