king
king, A. Pers. 657, S. Fr. 515. —Prob. Phrygian word acc. to Hsch., but Thurian acc. to Hermesianax Hist. ap. Ps.-Plu. Fluv. 12.4: βαλληναῖον ὄρος, = βασιλικόν (in Phrygia) and βαλλήν, a fabulous precious stone, Ps.-Plu. Fluv. 12.3, 4.
The corpus record
βαλλήν
ballen · ὁ
king
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Where it lives
- Persians 2 · 3.93/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- βαλήν · balēn Aeschylus, Persians 657–658
- βαλήν · balēn Aeschylus, Persians 657–658
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.