Ἅλις

Where it lives

• Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k

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

• Ἅλις · Halis Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 9.37.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1548)

Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Ἅλις (scan p. 116; entry #366). Root candidates: *wel-.
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Ἅλις (scan p. 75; entry #385).
• Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Ἅλις (scan p. 104; entry #360).

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