The corpus record

ἐγγελ-άω

eggelao

laugh at, mock

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Where it lives

Electra 2 · 2.3/10k
Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k

What it meant

ἐγγελ-άω · engel-aō — LSJ

laugh at, mock

laugh at, mock, τοῖς ποιουμένοις S. El. 277, cf. E. Med. 1355; in tmesi, γέλωτʼ ἐν σοὶ γελῶ S. Ant. 551 codd.; κατά τινος Id. OC 1339: without dat. expressed, Id. El. 807, E. Med. 1362; εἴς τινα Herod. 1.77:—Pass., Luc. Ind. 15.

II laugh in, among

laugh in or among, αὔρα ἐγγελῶσα κύμασιν Sosicr. 2.

In the wild

ἐγγελῶντες · engelōntes Euripides, Rhesus (DIORISIS sentence 530)
ἐγγελῶσα · engelōsa Sophocles, Electra 277–281
ἐγγελῶσα · engelōsa Sophocles, Electra 807
ἐγγελῶν · engelōn Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1338–1339
ἐγγελᾷ · engelai Sophocles, Philoctetes 1123–1127

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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