The corpus record

χαλάζ-ιος

chalazios

full of knots

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What it meant — LSJ

full of knots, clots

full of knots or clots, σπέρμα Steph. in Hp. 2.479D.

II god of hail

epith. of Zeus, god of hail, at Cyzicus, JHS 24.21; of Apollo at Thebes, Procl. ap. Phot. Bibl. p.321 B.

III resembling a hailstone

Subst., name of a precious stone, resembling a hailstone, Orph. L. 758, cf. χαλαζίας.

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.

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