The corpus record

ἔᾱ

ea1

ha! oho!

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Where it lives

Rhesus 7 · 13.02/10k
Ichneutae 2 · 11.63/10k
Ion 7 · 7.65/10k
Prometheus Bound 4 · 6.8/10k
Electra 4 · 5.29/10k
Heracles 4 · 5.11/10k
Trojan Women 3 · 4.24/10k
Hecuba 3 · 4.19/10k
Bacchae 3 · 3.99/10k
Libation Bearers 2 · 3.72/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 3 · 3.36/10k
Helen 3 · 3.07/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

ha! oho!

ha! oho! esp. before a question, ἔα, τί χρῆμα; A. Pr. 300, E. Or. 1573; ἔα, τίς οὗτος . . ; Id. Hec. 501, cf. 733, al.; ἔα, τίς ἔσθʼ; Ar. Pl. 824; sts. extra versum, E. Hec. 1116, Med. 1005, al.; sts. doubled, ἔ. ἔα, ἄπεχε A. Pr. 688 (lyr.); ἔα [ἔα], ἰδού S. OC 1477 (lyr.).—Rare in Prose, ἔα, ἔφη, σοφισταί τινες Pl. Prt. 314d; ἔα, τί ἡμῖν καὶ σοί; Ev.Luc. 4.34.

In the wild

ἔα · ea Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 870
ἔα · ea Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 870
ἔα · ea Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 300
ἔα · ea Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 386–387
ἔα · ea Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 687
ἔα · ea Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 687

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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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