Χοῖρος

Where it lives

• Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

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

• Χοίρου · Choirou Herodotus, Histories 7.170.3 (DIORISIS sentence 8054)

Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Χοῖρος (scan pp. 1691-1692; entry #6588).
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Χοῖρος (scan pp. 1286-1287; entry #8774). Root candidates: *ghoir-.
• Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Χοῖρος (scan pp. 2079-2080; entry #6123). Root candidates: *xop-.

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