The corpus record

βοή

boe

lauter Ruf, Geschrei

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Where it lives

Suppliant Maidens 3 · 6.22/10k
Persians 3 · 5.89/10k
James 1 · 5.85/10k
Orestes 5 · 5.1/10k
Ajax 4 · 5.09/10k
Iliad 50 · 4.48/10k
Trojan Women 3 · 4.24/10k
Hecuba 3 · 4.19/10k
Machabaeourum III 2 · 3.98/10k
Seven Against Thebes 2 · 3.97/10k
Electra 3 · 3.97/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 3 · 3.62/10k

Densest 12 of 41 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. βοή · boē — Frisk

βοή f. "lauter Ruf, Geschrei’. Daneben Bodw, Aor. βοῆσαι (ion. auch βῶσαι) “laut rufen, schreien’ (beide seit Il.) mit selten vorkommenden Ableitungen: βοητύς “Ruf” (a 369 ohne merkbaren Unterschied von βοή x 77 und 133; voreiliger Versuch einer semantischen Differenzierung bei Benveniste Noms d’agent 70), βόᾶμα, Bönna “ds” (A. u.a.), βόησις “ds.” (Thd., Quint.); βοητής “πίον (Hp.; kaum mit Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 165 … — [Frisk, s.v. βοή, p. 279]

2. βοή · boē — LSJ

loud cry, shout, battle-cry, of war, cry, song, shout, murmur, roar, sound, cry, sound

loud cry, shout, in Hom. mostly battle-cry, βοὴν ἀγαθός Il. 2.408, al.; βοᾶς δʼ ἔτι μηδʼ ὄνομʼ εἴη let there be not even the name of war, Thcoc. 16.97; later of prayer, Ἑλληνικὸν νόμισμα θυστάδος β. A. Th. 269; κακοφάτιδα β. cry of mourning, Id. Pers. 936 (lyr.); β. καὶ οἶκτος And. 1.48; κραυγὴ καὶ β. D. 54.9; also, song of joy, ἴτω ξύναυλος βοὰ χαρᾷ E. El. 879 (lyr.), cf. Pi. N. 3.67, Ar. Ra. 212; of oracles, ἀείδουσα . . βοὰς ἂς ἂν Ἀπόλλων κελαδήσῃ E. Ion 92 (lyr.); shout, murmur of a crowd, P

II aid called for, succour

= βοήθεια, aid called for, succour, A. Supp. 730, Ag. 1349. S. OC 1057 (lyr.). (gṷoṷā, cf. Skt. jō-guvē (intensive of gávatē) ‘proclaim aloud’.)

In the wild

βοήν · boēn Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1348
βοὴν · boēn Aeschylus, Agamemnon 321
βοὴν · boēn Aeschylus, Eumenides 397–402
βοὴν · boēn Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 885
βοάν · boan Aeschylus, Persians 935–940
βοὰν · boan Aeschylus, Persians 278–282

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Where it came from

Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. βοή (scan pp. 279-280; entry #1110). Root candidates: *ou-.

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