The corpus record

χᾰμ-ᾶθεν

chamathen

from the ground

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Where it lives

Histories 2 · 0.11/10k

What it meant — LSJ

from the ground

from the ground, Hdt. 2.125, 4.172, Eup. 146b, Ar. V. 249, the Attic form, acc. to A.D. Adv. 187.7 (who also gives χαμαῖθεν which is found in Plu. Aet.Gr. 2.296e; χαμάθεν [ᾰ] is v.l. in Hdt. 2.125).

χαμόθεν is found in Cratin. 296, X. HG 7.2.7, Stesich. ap. Arist. Rh. 1395a2, Plu. Alex. 35, Luc. Ind. 9, and was the colloquial form acc. to A.D. Adv. 188.33.

In the wild

χαμᾶθεν · chamathen Herodotus, Histories 2.125.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2450)
χαμᾶθεν · chamathen Herodotus, Histories 4.172.4 (DIORISIS sentence 5170)

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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