The corpus record
εἱλέω
eileo
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Where it lives
- Regnorum IV 1 · 0.58/10k
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
In the wild
- εἱλέοντο · heileonto Herodotus, Histories 8.12.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8514)
- εἵλησεν · heilēsen Septuaginta, Regnorum IV 2
Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. εἱλέω (scan pp. 431-432; entry #1921). Root candidates: *uel-, *yel-.
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. εἱλέω (scan p. 333; entry #2302).